Paul McCracken

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Paul W. McCracken (born 1915) is an American economist. He is currently the Edmund Ezra Day Distinguished University Professor Emeritus of Business Administration, Economics, and Public Policy at the University of Michigan. McCracken was chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisors from 1969 to 1971 under President Richard Nixon. He chaired the American Enterprise Institute's Council of Academic Advisors and served as interim president of the institute in 1986.

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• McCracken's faculty profile on the University of Michigan website

Preceded by Arthur Melvin Okun

Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisors 1969-1971

Succeeded by Herbert Stein

Preceded by William J. Baroody Jr.

President of the American Enterprise Institute (interim) 1986

Succeeded by Christopher DeMuth