The collection contains materials from economist Moskow’s work as a senior official in several departments and agencies during the Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, and George H.W. Bush administrations. They concern such topics as collective bargaining, labor disputes, employment, economic policies, wage and price policies, and U.S. trade.
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Scope and Content Note
The Moskow Papers contain materials from his positions in Federal departments and agencies during the Nixon, Ford and George H.W. Bush administrations. Among the agencies in which he worked were the Council of Economic Advisers (CEA), Department of Labor, Department of Housing and Urban Development, and Council on Wage and Price Stability. The papers focus on such matters as labor, collective bargaining, employment policy, and international trade.
Approximately three-quarters of the collection consist of a subject file that Moskow kept continuously throughout his work in the Nixon and Ford Administrations. The majority of this material pertains to his work in the Department of Labor and the Council on Wage and Price Stability, but small amounts from his other positions also appears.
The remainder of the collection consists of a small chronological file kept during his time as staff economist for the Council of Economic Advisers and a speech file covering his work as Director of the Council on Wage and Price Stability and Under Secretary of Labor.
Related Materials (February 2011)
Materials in the Ford Library related to wage and price stability and other economic issues can be found in the Arthur Burns Papers and the L. William Seidman Files.
For information pertaining to the CEA see the U.S. Council of Economic Advisers Records. Although some of these records extend back into the later years of the Nixon administration, none cover the years of Moskow’s service with the CEA. The University of Michigan’s Bentley Historical Library (located next door to the Ford Library) holds the papers of Paul McCracken, who was Chairman of the CEA during the years of Moskow’s service there.
Other material related to labor can be found in the White House Central File Subject File category LA (Labor management).
Details
7.2 linear feet (ca. 14,400 pages)
Michael H. Moskow (accession numbers 2009-NLF-003, 2009-NLF-026, and 2009-NLF-033)
Access
Open. Some items may be temporarily restricted under terms of the donor's deed of gift, a copy of which is available on request, or under National Archives and Records Administration general restrictions (36 CFR 1256).
Copyright
Michael H. Moskow donated to the United States of America his copyrights in all of his unpublished writings in National Archives collections. The copyrights to materials written by other individuals or organizations are presumed to remain with them. Works prepared by U.S. Government employees as part of their official duties are in the public domain.
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Christian C. Goos, February 2011
Biography
Michael H. Moskow
Jan. 7, 1938 - Born Paterson, NJ to Jacob and Sylvia (Edelstein) Moskow
1959 - AB in Economics, Lafayette College
1959-60 - 1st Lieutenant, U.S. Army
1962 - MA in Economics, University of Pennsylvania
1965 - Ph.D. in Economics, University of Pennsylvania
1963-67 - Assistant Professor of Management and Instructor in Economics, Drexel Institute of Technology
1967-69 - Associate Professor of Economics, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
1969-71 - Senior Staff Economist, U.S. Council Economics Advisers
1970-72 - Executive Director, Construction Industry Collective Bargaining Committee
1971-73 - Deputy Under Secretary, then Assistant Secretary for Policy, Evaluation and Research, Department of Labor
1973-75 - Assistant Secretary for Policy Development and Research, Department of Housing and Urban Development
1975-76 - Director, Council on Wage and Price Stability
1976-77 - Under Secretary, Department of Labor
1977-91 - Senior management positions at three Chicago companies: Esmark, Dart & Kraft, and Premark International
1991-93 - Deputy U.S. Trade Representative
1993-94 - Faculty member, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
1994-2007 - President & CEO, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
2008-Present - Vice-Chairman and Senior Fellow on the Global Economy at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs