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.^[1]

He died on August 3, 2012, at age 96.^[5]

• McCracken's faculty profile on the University of Michigan website
• Appearances on C-SPAN
• Sidney Lewis Jones (2000). Public & Private Economic Adviser: Paul W. McCracken. University Press of America. ISBN 978-0-7618-1698-0.

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