Ed Lazear, 2002 Leigh Lecture speaker
Edward Lazear is a labor economist who is a founder of a field known as personnel economics. His research centers on employee incentives, promotions, compensation, and productivity in firms. He also has devoted study to culture and language, with an emphasis on explaining the rise in multiculturalism in the United States. Recent work includes an already widely known theory of educational production. His current research is on entrepreneurship, leadership, and its relation to personnel economics.
Edward P. Lazear, the Morris A. Cox Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution since 1985, is also the Jack Steele Parker Professor of Human Resources Management and Economics at Stanford University's Graduate School of Business, where he has taught since 1992. Lazear is currently on leave as Chairman of the President’s Council of Economic Advisers. In his position as the chief White House economist, he advises the President on a broad range of matters that involve both the macroeconomy and microeconomic phenomena.
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Roy Leigh and Ed Lazear