Podcast appearances and mentions of Michael J Boskin

With the Biden administration taking office, COVID rampant, vaccine disbursement beginning, and businesses and individual Americans reeling from financial burdens, what is the outlook for the economy in 2021? Join us for a lively and important discussion on where the U.S. and global economies are headed and what should be done to keep them on track. Michael J. Boskin is T. M. Friedman Professor of Economics and Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. He is also a research associate at the 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 100) 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. Laura D'Andrea Tyson is an influential scholar of economics and public policy and an expert on trade and competitiveness who has also served as a presidential adviser. She is a distinguished professor of the Graduate School at the Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley. She also chairs the Board of Trustees at UC Berkeley's Blum Center for Developing Economies, which aims to develop solutions to global poverty. She is the former faculty director of the Berkeley Haas Institute for Business and Social Impact, which she launched in 2013. She served as interim dean of the Haas School from July to December 2018, and served previously as dean from 1998 to 2001. Dr. Tyson was a member of President Clinton's cabinet between 1993 and 1996. She served as chair of the president's Council of Economic Advisers from 1993 to 1995 and as director of the White House National Economic Council from 1995 to 1996. She was the first woman to serve in those positions. This event is underwritten by Bank of America. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Michael J. Boskin is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and a Professor of Economics at Stanford. Domenech and Boskin discuss Trump's trade war with China, global economic and immigration trends in Europe, and the economics behind popular 2020 platforms like the Green New Deal and Medicare For All.

Tariffs and the looming threat of a trade war, the White House shaking up its economic team, and the president suggesting another round of tax cuts begs the question: what next in Washington, DC? Dr. Michael J. Boskin, a Hoover Institution senior fellow and the Tully M. Friedman Professor of Economics at Stanford University, discusses what President Trump can do to keep the economy growing and takes a look at the financial health of California—the scene of this week’s visit by President Trump. Did you like the show? Please rate, review, and subscribe!

In recent years, increasing attention has been devoted to inequality, opportunity and mobility. What are the facts on these issues? What are the roles of our government, Stanford and each of us in building opportunity? What factors and policies are likely to have the largest effects on inequality, opportunity and mobility, in America and globally? Larry Diamond, ’73, MA ’78, PhD ’80 is the Haas Faculty Director for the Haas Center for Public Service, a senior fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and the Hoover Institution, and a professor, by courtesy, of political science and sociology. Michelle Wilde Anderson is a professor of law at Stanford Law School. Michael J. Boskin is the Friedman Professor of Economics, and a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution. Francis Fukuyama is the director of the Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law, the Nomellini Senior Fellow, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, and a professor, by courtesy, of political science. Caroline Hoxby is the Bommer Professor in Economics, a professor, by courtesy, of economics at the Graduate School of Business, and a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research. Jesper Sørensen, PhD ’96 is the Jeffe Professor of organizational behavior at the Graduate School of Business, a professor, by courtesy, of sociology, and the faculty director, Stanford Institute for Innovation in Developing Countries. Classes Without Quizzes are presented by the Stanford Alumni Association. Filmed on location at Stanford Reunion Homecoming 2015 in partnership with the Haas Center for Public Service.