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Productivity and growth: facing the fiscal reality
Michael J. Boskin is Tully M. Friedman Professor of Economics and Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University. He is also Research Associate, National Bureau of Economic Research. He served as Chairman of the President’s Council of Economic Advisers (CEA) from 1989 to 1993. The independent Council for Excellence in Government rated Dr. Boskin’s CEA one of the five most respected agencies (out of one hundred) in the federal government. He chaired the highly influential blue-ribbon Commission on the Consumer Price Index, whose report has transformed the way government statistical agencies around the world measure inflation, GDP and productivity.
Advisor to governments and businesses globally, Dr. Boskin also serves on several corporate and philanthropic boards of directors. He is frequently sought as a public speaker on the economic outlook and evolving trends significant to business, national and international economic policy and the intersection of economics and geopolitics.
Dr. Boskin received his B.A. with highest honors and the Chancellor’s Award as outstanding undergraduate in 1967 from the University of California at Berkeley, where he also received his M.A. in 1968 and his Ph.D. in 1971, all in economics. In addition to Stanford and the University of California, he has taught at Harvard and Yale. He is the author of more than one hundred books and articles. He is internationally recognized for his research on world economic growth, tax and budget theory and policy, Social Security, U.S. saving and consumption patterns, and the implications of changing technology and demography on capital, labor, and product markets.
Dr. Boskin has received numerous professional awards and citations, including Stanford’s Distinguished Teaching Award in 1988, the National Association of Business Economists’ Abramson Award for outstanding research and their Distinguished Fellow Award, the Medal of the President Engin Akarli The Economic History Review, 2012 Including the editors, a team of 29 scholars have contributed some 80 short essays to this impressive volume, their discussions aided by no fewer than 309 specially prepared maps and diagrams reproduced in full colour. In most cases, four county-wide maps are provided to illustrate each essay, with a double-page layout being adopted. Most are concerned with depicting change over time, though some make comparisons at points in time. They are standardized by using a base map that divides the county into its constituent parishes and townships. It was compiled from the first-edition 25-inch Ordnance Survey maps of the county, which were surveyed and published during the last quarter of the nineteenth century. Tables, graphs, and contemporary illustrations are also included in the texts. An introductory section covers the geology and natural resources of the county, along with developments in its administrative areas, both secular and religious, and, from the sixteenth century, the ways in which it was mapped, with extracts from early small-scale maps being included. Sections follow in chronological order dealing with the county's history in pre-conquest times and at Domesday, going back to Roman times; during the later medieval period, reaching into the sixteenth century; and in the modern era, though not usually tending to extend into very recent times. Reflecting the amount of source material available, emphasis is on the modern period, discussion of which occupies about two-thirds of the book. Within each section, various common themes are covered. These are demography, agriculture, industry, urbanization, communications, distribution of wealth, political organization, and religion. In the modern period especially, the t American economist (1918–2002) For other people named James Tobin, see James Tobin (disambiguation). James Tobin (March 5, 1918 – March 11, 2002) was an American economist who served on the Council of Economic Advisers and consulted with the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, and taught at Harvard and Yale Universities. He contributed to the development of key ideas in the Keynesian economics of his generation and advocated government intervention in particular to stabilize output and avoid recessions. His academic work included pioneering contributions to the study of investment, monetary and fiscal policy and financial markets. He also proposed an econometric model for censored dependent variables, the well-known tobit model. Along with fellow neo-Keynesian economist James Meade in 1977, Tobin proposed nominal GDP targeting as a monetary policy rule in 1980. Tobin received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1981 for "creative and extensive work on the analysis of financial markets and their relations to expenditure decisions, employment, production and prices." Outside academia, Tobin was widely known for his suggestion of a tax on foreign exchange transactions, now known as the "Tobin tax." This was designed to reduce speculation in the international currency markets, which he saw as dangerous and unproductive. Tobin was born on March 5, 1918, in Champaign, Illinois. His father was Louis Michael Tobin (b. 1879), a journalist working at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. His father had fought in World War I, was a member of the first Greek organization at Illinois (Delta Tau Delta fraternity Beta Upsilon chapter), and was credited as the inventor of "Homecoming." His mother, Margaret Edgerton Tobin (b. 1893), was a social worker. Tobin attended the University Laboratory High School of Urbana, Illi .Miraculous growth and stagnation in post-war Japan - Edited by Koichi Hamada, Keijiro Otsuka, Gustav Ranis, and Ken Togo
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