Paul W. McCracken

Paul W. McCracken is a director Emeriti of the National Bureau of Economic Research. Also see The Independent Institute/Personnel.

"Since 1948, he has been a member of the faculty of the School of Business Administration at The University of Michigan. In 1966, he was appointed Edmund Ezra Day Distinguished University Professor of Business Administration at the University.

"McCracken was on leave from the University, 1956-59, while he served as Member of the President's Council of Economic Advisers. He returned to the Council at the beginning of 1969 to serve for three years as its Chairman. He was also a member of President Reagan's Economic Policy Advisory Board. He is a member of the Public Oversight Board of the AICPA, a member of the Harvard Graduate Society Council, and has been Chairman of the National Bureau of Economic Research, and a member of the President's Council of Berea College.

"McCracken has been a director of some companies, among them Dow Chemical Co., Johnson Controls, Lincoln National Corporation, Sara Lee, and Texas Instruments."