Named after economist Arthur Laffer, the Laffer curve is a concept you've likely heard in the news as it concerns taxes, tax ...

Last week at the President Ronald Reagan Ranch Center in Santa Barbara, Calif., the staff made a nice move. On the occasion of the publication of the first volume of the collected works of the ...

When it comes to taxes, many people feel the government can never collect enough. But how can governments determine the “ideal” tax rate? Enter the Laffer curve—a theory that suggests there is an ...

So what do we think of the Laffer Curve, given that President Trump will be giving the Presidential Medal of Freedom to economist Arthur Laffer. Well, certainly it isn’t economic phlogiston. It’s a ...

Congratulations are in order for economist Arthur Laffer, who is due in October to be fêted by the Committee to Unleash Prosperity in respect of the jubilee of his famous formula. In 1974, a curve, ...

The Laffer curve--a bell curve looking like a "McDonald's arch on its side," as the great Wall Street Journal editor Robert L. Bartley described it--remains the most recognizable economics graph of ...

We're just at the 40th anniversary of the first drawing of what became known as the Laffer Curve. Which seems like a reasonable enough time to sort through the misunderstandings, even misinformation, ...

The Laffer Curve is a method for illustrating the relationship between tax rates, taxable income, and tax revenue. But it’s important to realize that there are actually lots of varieties. The… Read ...

Last year, famed Republican economist Art Laffer co-authored a hagiographic tribute to President Trump and his agenda. Trump habitually bestows his most slavish supporters with pardons or — in the ...

Long before Donald Trump, there was an economist. His name was Arthur Laffer. He developed an idea he cleverly named after himself. It has become the First Commandment of modern Republicanism. But it ...

Northwestern’s conservative students’ group, Young Americans for Freedom (YAF), hosted economist Arthur Laffer Tuesday evening at Swift Hall to speak on his economic work and theories. Laffer ...