| Paul McCracken | |
| Office: | 8th Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers |
| President: | Richard Nixon |
| Term Start: | February 4, 1969 |
| Term End: | December 31, 1971 |
| Predecessor: | Art Okun |
| Successor: | Herbert Stein |
| Birth Name: | Paul Winston McCracken |
| Birth Date: | 29 December 1915 |
| Birth Place: | Richland, Iowa, U.S. |
| Death Place: | Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.S. |
| Party: | Republican |
| Spouse: | Emily Siler |
Paul Winston McCracken (December 29, 1915 – August 3, 2012) was an American economist born in Richland, Iowa.
He held an M.A. and Ph.D. from Harvard University in Economics and a B.A. from William Penn University.[1] [2] He was the Edmund Ezra Day Distinguished University Professor Emeritus of Business Administration, Economics, and Public Policy at the University of Michigan.[1] McCracken was chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisors from 1969 to 1971 under President Richard Nixon.[1] He took the lead in developing economic policy at the outset of the Nixon administration.[3]
In 1976 he was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association.[4] He chaired the American Enterprise Institute's Council of Academic Advisors and served as interim president of the institute in 1986.
He died on August 3, 2012, at age 96.[5]
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