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John F Early is an American economist and public administrator.

Overview
John Early has deep experience as an executive leader and mathematical economist. He has served as chief customer (quality) and chief strategy officer of a Fortune 100 company, chief operating officer of a leading consultancy in quality and lean six sigma, and an assistant commissioner for the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Publications
Professional Publications John F. Early “Wealthy Americans Already Pay Their Share,” Wall Street Journal, February 26 2020, A17, (With Phil Gramm) https://www.wsj.com/articles/wealthy-americans-already-pay-their-share-11582676377 “The Truth About Income Inequality,” Wall Street Journal, November 4, 2019, A17, (With Phil Gramm) https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-truth-about-income-inequality-11572813786 “Americans are Richer Than We Think,” Wall Street Journal, August 22, 2019, A17, (With Phil Gramm) https://www.wsj.com/articles/americans-are-richer-than-we-think-11566428343?mod=hp_opin_pos_2. “Modest Cuts Could Save Medicare from Disaster,” Wall Street Journal, June 11, 2019, https://www.wsj.com/articles/modest-cuts-could-save-medicare-from-disaster-11560207766, and Tampa Bay Times, June 16, 2019. Unplugging the Third Rail: Choices for Affordable Medicare, Cato Institute, Policy Analysis No. 871, Washington, D.C., June 6, 2019. https://www.cato.org/publications/policy-analysis/unplugging-third-railchoices-affordable-medicare. “The Myth of ‘Wage Stagnation,’” Wall Street Journal, May 18, 2019, A15, (With Phil Gramm), https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-myth-of-wage-stagnation-11558126174. “Learning, Prosperity and Government: A Case Example of the National Institutes of Health,” Cayman Financial Review, May 7, 2019, pp. 60-61. https://www.caymanfinancialreview.com/2019/05/07/learning-prosperity-and-government-a-caseexample-of-the-national-institutes-of-health/ “Economic Inequality: Are We Measuring It Right and What Does It Mean?” Cato Institute, Capitol Hill Forum, April 29, 2019. “Pay people to be idle – you get what you pay for,” Cayman Financial Review, Fourth Quarter, 2018, Issue Number 53, pp 52-54, https://www.caymanfinancialreview.com/2018/11/14/pay-people-to-be-idle-you-getwhat-you-pay-for/. “Good News About Redistribution,” Cayman Financial Review, Third Quarter, 2018, Issue Number 52, pp 51-54, https://www.caymanfinancialreview.com/2018/08/14/good-news-about-redistribution/. “Government Can’t Rescue the Poor,” The Wall Street Journal, October 11, 2018, A17, (with Phil Gramm) https://www.wsj.com/articles/government-cant-rescue-the-poor-1539211035. “The Myth of American Inequality,” The Wall Street Journal, August 10, 2018, A 15, (with Phil Gramm) https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-myth-of-american-inequality-1533855113. Reassessing the Facts about Inequality, Poverty, and Redistribution, Policy Analysis no. 839, Cato Institute, Washington, DC, April 24, 2018. https://www.cato.org/publications/policy-analysis/reassessingfacts-about-inequality-poverty-redistribution. “Accurate and Reliable Data and Measurement Systems,” Juran’s Quality Handbook: The Complete Guide to Performance Excellence, Seventh Edition, (McGraw Hill, New York), 2017, pp. 577-688. John F. Early Page 2 “Continuous Innovation Using Design for Six Sigma,” Juran’s Quality Handbook: The Complete Guide to Performance Excellence, Seventh Edition, (McGraw Hill, New York), 2017, pp 477-508 (With Joseph De Feo) “Quality Planning and Design for New Goods and Services,” Juran’s Quality Handbook: The Complete Guide to Performance Excellence, Seventh Edition, (McGraw Hill, New York), 2017, pp. 101-154 (With Joseph De Feo) “Six Sigma: Breakthrough to In-Process Effectiveness,” Juran’s Quality Handbook: The Complete Guide to Performance Excellence, Seventh Edition, (McGraw Hill, New York), 2017, pp. 429-458 (With Joseph De Feo) “Role of Statistics in Quality,” Juran’s Quality Handbook: The Complete Guide to Performance Excellence, Seventh Edition, (McGraw Hill, New York), 2017, pp 345-368. Juran’s Quality Management and Analysis, Sixth Edition, (McGraw Hill, New York), 2013. (With Joseph A. DeFeo) “Quality by Design: Preventing Quality Failures at Their Source,” Quality Digest, February 14, 2013. http://www.qualitydigest.com/inside/quality-insider-article/quality-design-part-1.html# “Six Sigma, Improving Process Effectiveness,” Juran’s Quality Handbook, Sixth Edition, (McGraw Hill, New York,), 2010, pp. 359 - 388. (with Joseph M. DeFeo) “Continuous Innovation Using Design for Six Sigma,” Juran’s Quality Handbook, Sixth Edition, (McGraw Hill, New York,), 2010, pp. 409 - 440. (with Joseph A. DeFeo) “Accurate and Reliable Measurement Systems and Advanced Tools,” Juran’s Quality Handbook, Sixth Edition, (McGraw Hill, New York), 2010, pp. 585 - 673. (with Brian Stockhoff) “Quality Planning,” Juran’s Quality Handbook, Fifth Edition, (McGraw Hill, New York,), 1998, pp. 54 – 73. (with John Coletti) "But it Takes Too Long . . ." Quality Progress, July 1995, pp. 51-55. (With Blanton Godfrey) "Quality Processes in Management," AMA Management Handbook, Third Edition, (American Management Association, New York), 1994, p. 1-23ff. Quality Improvement Pocket Guide, (Juran Institute: Wilton, Connecticut), 1993. ‘Strategic Leadership for Quality in Health Care,” Quality Progress, April 1992, pp.45-48. Strategic Quality Planning, (Juran Institute: Wilton, Connecticut), 1992. Quality Improvement for Health Care, (Juran Institute: Wilton, Connecticut), 1992. "Embarking on Quality Improvement: The Journey Begins,” The Quality Improvement Journey, Health Insurance Association of America, October 1991. Total Quality Management: A Practical Guide, (Juran Institute: Wilton, Connecticut), 1991. "Improving Consumer Price Indexes," Journal of Official Statistics, 6:2, 1990, pp. 179-204. John F. Early Page 3 "Quality Improvement Tools,” “Action Planning Case Study," "Re-entry Planning,” The Power of Quality, The Health Care Forum, June 1989. "Strategies for Measurement of Service Quality," American Society for Quality Control: 43rd Annual Quality Congress, May 1989, pp. 2-9. "Hospital Care - Frontiers in Managing Quality," Juran Report, Number 10, Autumn 1989, pp. 18-31. (with Gregory Binns) "Cost Savings in Quality Improvement: Are They Real?” First Annual Forum on Quality Improvement in Health Care, October 1989. "Quality in Government: The Opportunities and Challenges,” Quality Assurance in Government: Symposium Proceedings, The Washington Statistical Society, May 1988, pp. 1-18. " Applying Process Management in a Service Organization," American Society for Quality Control: 42nd Annual Quality Congress, May 1988, pp. 2-8. "Comprehensive Quality Measurement in the Consumer Price Index," Proceedings of the Fifth Annual Conference on Quality Improvement, (Juran Institute: Wilton, Connecticut), November 1987. "Replanning the Commodity Review Process: An Application at the Bureau of Labor Statistics," Proceedings of the Fifth Annual Conference on Quality Improvement, (Juran Institute: Wilton Connecticut), November 1987. "Producer Price Indexes," Encyclopedia of Statistical Sciences, ed. Samuel Katz and Norman L. Johnson, (John Wiley and Sons: New York), 1986. "Managing Information Quality in the CPI,” American Society for Quality Control Quality: 40th Quality Congress Transaction, April 1986, pp. 2-9. "A Half-year Decline in Inflation: Its Antecedents and Structure," Monthly Labor Review, October 1986, pp. 3-14 (with Walter Lane and Philip Sturm) "A Century of Methodological Progress at the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics,” Journal of the American Statistical Association, December 1984. (with Janet Norwood) "Inflation and the Business Cycle During the Postwar Period," Monthly Labor Review, November 1984, pp 3-8. (with Mary Lynn Schmidt and Thomas J. Mosimann) "Quality Adjustment in the Producer Price Indexes," The U.S. National Income and Product Accounts, Selected Topics, Ed. Murry Foss, (University of Chicago Press: Chicago), 1983. (with James Sinclair) Navy Senior Executive Service Propensities and Elasticities, (General Research Corporation: McLean, Virginia), August 1982. (with Norvin Rader and Jerry Allen) Military Compensation: Analysis of Proposed Retirement Plan Alternative, For United States Navy, Chief of Naval Operations (General Research Corporation: McLean, Virginia), 1982. (with Norvin Rader) "Consumer Price Index" " Encyclopedia of Statistical Sciences, ed. Samuel Katz and Norman L. Johnson, (John Wiley and Sons: New York), 1981. John F. Early Page 4 Final Report and Evaluation of Techniques for Industry Analysis, (General Research Corporation: McLean, Virginia), September 1981. (with Paul Armknecht) Variable Housing Allowance, (General Research Corporation: McLean, Virginia), June 1981. (with Norvin Rader) Pay Principles and Standards, (General Research Corporation: McLean, Virginia), February 1981. (with Norvin Rader) "Double-digit Inflation, Today and in 1973-74: A Comparison," Monthly Labor Review, May 1980, pp. 3- 20. (with Craig Howell and Andrew Clem) Retirement Plan Alternatives, (General Research Corporation: McLean, Virginia), December 1980. (With Norvin Rader) Producer Price Indexes and Industrial Economic Analysis, Industrial Issues Series, US Department of Commerce, September 8, 1980. "The Producer Price Index Revision: Overview and Pilot Survey," Monthly Labor Review, December 1979, pp. 11-19. "Improving the Measurement of Industrial Price Change," Monthly Labor Review, April 1978, pp. 7-15. "Producer Price Indexes: An Analytical Framework to Replace the Wholesale Price Index," invited paper, Proceedings Business and Economics Section, American Statistical Association, 1978, pp 164-168 "Comments on the Analysis of Single and Related Time Series into Components: Proposals for Improving X-11," Proceedings: NBER/Census Seasonality Conference, US Bureau of the Census, 1977. "Comments of Seasonal Adjustment of the Unemployment Rate," Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, 1:1976. "Updating the Weights in Indexes of Wholesale, Industry Prices," Monthly Labor Review, September 1976. "Effects of the Energy Crisis on Employment," Monthly Labor Review, August 1974, pp 8-16. "Statistical Characteristics of Major BLS Series," Monthly Labor Review, July 1974. "Comments: On the Use of Leading Indicators to Predict Cyclical Turning Points," Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, 2:1973. "Manufacturing Quit Rates Revisited: Secular Changes in Women's Quits,", Monthly Labor Review, December 1973, pp. 31-37 (with Paul Armknecht) "Il tasso de dimmissioni nell industria Americana," Mercurio, November 1973. (with Paul Armknecht) "Job Mobility Among Factory Workers in the United States," Business and Economic Dimensions, September-October 1973. (with Paul Armknecht) The Manufacturing Quit Rate: Trends, Cycles, and Inter-industry Variations, Bureau of Labor Statistics Staff Paper Number 7, Washington, D.C., 1973. (with Paul Armknecht) "Factors Affecting Trends in Real Spendable Earnings," Monthly Labor Review, May 1973. John F. Early Page 5 "Quits in Manufacturing, A Study of Their Causes," Monthly Labor Review, November 1972. (with Paul Armknecht) "Labor Mobility: A Study of Trend, Cyclical, and Inter-industry Variations in the Manufacturing Quit Rate," Proceeding of the Business and Economics Statistics Section, American Statistical Association, 1972, pp. 216-221. (with Paul Armknecht) "Measures of Variability for Seasonally Adjusted Series from the Establishment Surveys," Employment and Earnings, December 1971.