abstract:Edward Paul "Ed" Lazear (, ) (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.
Speaking at a press conference shortly after the president's remarks, Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and EdwardLazear, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, acknowledged as much.
One, by EdwardLazear of Stanford University Business School, found that workers installing car windscreens increased their productivity when they were put on piece rates rather than on fixed wages.
Perhaps the best indicator of what the report will include comes from remarks earlier this month by CEA Chairman EdwardLazear in a speech to the Chicago Council on Global Affairs.