Edward Lazear
| Edward Paul Lazear | |
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| 24th Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers | |
| In office February 27, 2006 – January 20, 2009 |
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| President | George W. Bush |
| Preceded by | Ben Bernanke |
| Succeeded by | Christina Romer |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 17 August 1948[1] New York City |
| Alma mater | University of California, Los Angeles Harvard University |
Edward Paul "Ed" Lazear (/ləˈzɪər/, lə-ZEER) (born August 17, 1948) is an award-winning American economist, considered the founder of personnel economics, and was the chief economic advisor to President George W. Bush.
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Career
Edward Lazear is an economist who is currently a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University.[2] The author of an extensive body of research, he also regularly appears on such networks as CNBC and Fox Business News, and is a frequent contributor to the Wall Street Journal.[3]
Lazear graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles with AB and AM degrees in 1971. He received his doctorate in economics from Harvard University in 1974.[4]
Lazear served at the White House from 2006 - 2009, where he was chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers.[2] Before coming to Stanford, he taught at the University of Chicago.
Lazear is the founding editor of the Journal of Labor Economics, as well as the founder of the Society of Labor Economists.[2]
Lazear is also currently the Jack Steele Parker Professor of Human Resources, Management and Economics at Stanford University's Graduate School of Business, as well as a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research.[2]
Lazear enjoys outdoor activities in his spare time, and is an avid mountain biker[5]
Research
Lazear is the founding editor of the Journal of Labor Economics. He has published over 100 scholarly articles,[1]
Most of his work has to do with motivating and compensating workers. One of his most famous papers, "Rank-Order Tournaments as Optimum Labor Contracts," argues that in certain circumstances, it is in a firm's best interest to rank its employees and pay particularly high wages to the top-ranked employees. This helps explain why the highest jobs, like chief executive officer, often draw paychecks that are much higher than the next-highest jobs, even though the skill differences between those employees are not very high. It also helps explain the partnership structure of law firms, in which associate lawyers compete to become partners and earn a much higher salary. He has also analyzed how peer pressure and mandatory retirement can help reduce principal–agent problems in companies. He also recently studied how entrepreneurs are developed.
Awards
Lazear has won a number of awards over his career. Among those that he has won are:[2]
- 1998 Leo Melamed Biennial Prize, for the best research by a business school professor.
- 2003 Adam Smith Prize, European Association of Labor Economists.
- 2004 IZA Prize in Labor Economics, Institute for the Study of Labor.
- 2006 Jacob Mincer Career Achievement Award for Lifetime Contributions to the Field of Labor Economics.
Lazear also holds four honorary degrees, the most recent from the Copenhagen Business School.
Publications
- Books
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- Lazear, Edward et al., ed. (2004). Personnel Economics, Elgar, with 43 articles dating from 1962 to 2000 (link to contents link here).
- Articles
- Lazear, Edward P. (1979). "Why Is There Mandatory Retirement?" Journal of Political Economy, 87(6), pp. 1261-1284.
- Lazear, Edward P., and Sherwin Rosen (1981). "Rank-Order Tournaments as Optimum Labor Contracts," Journal of Political Economy, 89(5), pp. 841-864.
- Lazear, Edward P. (1986). "Salaries and Piece Rates," Journal of Business, 59(3), pp. 405-431.
- _____ (1999). "Personnel Economics: Past Lessons and Future Directions," Journal of Labor Economics, 17(2), p. 233 [pp. 199-236. (Presidential address to the Society of Labor Economists.)
- _____ (2000a). "Economic Imperialism," Quarterly Journal of Economics, 115(1), pp. 99-146.
- _____ (2000b). "The Future of Personnel Economics," Economic Journal, 110(467), pp. F611-F639.
- _____ (2000c). "Performance Pay and Productivity," American Economic Review, 90(5), pp. 1346-1361.
- Lazear, Edward P., and Kathryn L. Shaw (2007). "Personnel Economics: The Economist's View of Human Resources," Journal of Economic Perspectives, 21(4), pp. 91-114.
- Lazear, Edward, 2008. "personnel economics," The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, 2nd Edition, v. 6, pp. 380–84]. Abstract.
See also
Notes
- ↑ Nominations of Edward P. Lazear, Randall S. Kroszner, and Kevin M. Warsh, February 14, 2006, Volume 4, p. 35.
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References
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External links
- Edward Lazear's personal homepage.
- Lazear's Hoover Institute bio.
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| Preceded by | Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers 2006-2009 |
Succeeded by Christina Romer |
