Events Detail

Betsy and Walter Stern Conference Center
Hudson Institute
1015 15th Street, N.W., 6th Floor, Washington, D.C. 20005

In his first major public address since taking office on February 27, 2006, Honorable Edward P. Lazear, Chairman of the President’s Council of Economic Advisers, will discuss the state of the economy and the labor market, as well as productivity growth, wages, income inequality and mobility. Afterwards, he will take audience questions. Before coming to the Council of Economic Advisers, Dr. Lazear was a member of President Bush’s Advisory Panel on Tax Reform. He is on leave of absence from Stanford University where he is the Jack Steele Parker Professor of Human Resources Management and Economics (1995) and the Morris Arnold Cox Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution.

2:15 p.m.
Registration

2:30 p.m.

Introduction
Diana Furchtgott-Roth, Senior Fellow, Hudson Institute

Address and Discussion
Honorable Edward Lazear, Chairman, Council of Economic Advisers

3:30 p.m.
Adjournment


To RSVP (acceptances only) or to request information, please contact Hudson Institute at 202.974.6451 or e-mail Xiuyue Zhu at Xiuyue@hudson.org.

Hudson’s Center for Employment Policy is grateful to the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation for the support of this program.