Michael Jay Boskin (born September 23, 1945) is the T. M. Friedman Professor of Economics and senior Fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution. He also is chief executive officer and president of Boskin & Co., an economic consulting company. Biography Boskin holds B.A. with highest honors, M.A., and Ph.D. degrees in economics from the University of California, Berkeley, earned in 1967, 1968, and 1971 respectively. He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa. He joined Stanford University in 1970. He is a research associate, National Bureau of Economic Research. Boskin has been a director of Exxon Mobil since 1996. He is also a director of Oracle Corporation, Shinsei Bank, and Vodafone Group plc (1999–2008). He serves on the Commerce Department's Advisory Committee on the National Income and Product Accounts. Boskin is the recipient of the Adam Smith Prize and other professional awards. He is a regular contributor to Project Syndicate since 2009. He also served as the chair of the Boskin Commission which changed the way inflation was measured. According to Patrick Buchanan, in Death of Manufacturing, Boskin was sanguine about the transfer of United States manufacturing overseas. Notoriously, during the time he was an economic advisor to the G.W. Bush administration, he is noted to have said, "Potato chips, semiconductor chips, what is the difference? They are all chips. A hundred dollars' worth of one or a hundred dollars' worth of the other is still a hundred dollars." Publications Too Many Promises: The Uncertain Future of Social Security, 1986. Too Many Promises: The Uncertain Future of Social Security, Dow-Jones-Irwin, 1986. Reagan and the Economy: Successes, Failures, Unfinished Agenda, Institute for Contemporary Studies, 1987. The Economic Report of the President, with R. Schmalensee and J. Taylor, United States Government Printing Office, 1990. The Economic Report of the President, with R. Schmalensee and J. Taylor, United States Government Printing Office, 1991. The Economic Report of the President, with D. Bradford and P. Wonnacott, United States Government Printing Office, 1992. The Economic Report of the President, with D. Bradford and P. Wonnacott, United States Government Printing Office, 1993. Books edited The Crisis in Social Security, Institute for Contemporary Studies, 1977 (editor). Federal Tax Reform, Institute for Contemporary Studies, 1978 (editor). Economics and Human Welfare: Essays in Honor of Tibor Scitovsky, Academic Press, 1979 (editor). The Economics of Taxation, with H. Aaron, Brookings, 1980 (editor). The Economy in the 1980s: A Program for