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, ...

I enjoyed the article about stand-up comedian and economist Yoram Bauman, a truly funny comedian (“An Economist Stands Up for a Less Dismal Science,” The Chronicle, January 3). However, I was ...

Anecdata Alert: An Early Sign That School Cell Phone Bans Are Working Sydney Sweeney Highlights the Wokesters’ Fatal Flaw Scared Out of Public Service Audio By Carbonatix The story goes that back in ...

The Laffer Curve—the conceptual device illustrating how high marginal tax rates reduced revenue and economic growth—helped revolutionize tax policy around the world thirty five years ago. Every ...

About 50 years ago Art Laffer drew a convex curve on a napkin to illustrate the power of tax cuts to two senior officials from the Ford administration named Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney.

Arthur Laffer, the Reagan-era guru of trickle-down economics, was unchastened by the deficit explosion back then, which effectively disproved his theory that cutting taxes on the rich would increase ...

In a recent New York Times article, David Leonhardt argues that low, effective corporate taxes on U.S. corporations have generated low corporate tax revenues. In fact, he has it backwards. Corporate ...

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 ...

The name Art Laffer probably means little to most Americans. Children of the 1980s may remember the scene from Ferris Bueller’s Day Off when the bespectacled economics teacher, played to perfection by ...