The Laffer Curve is one of the most hotly contested concepts in political economy. It's absolutely and entirely uncontroversial in economics of course, but politics can do strange things to peoples' ...

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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, ...

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 ...

Last month, President Trump gave the Presidential Medal of Freedom to economist Arthur Laffer. Laffer was a hotshot young tenured economist at the University of Chicago in the 1960s, developed ...

In this 2012 Making Sen$e report, former Reagan White House economic adviser Arthur Laffer drew his famous curve on a napkin — just the way he did for the Ford ...

Conservatives are very fond of the Laffer Curve, which says that sometimes, lowering taxes can raise revenue. Liberals love to make fun of it by pointing out that all the Republican claims that this ...

The Laffer Curve is a graphical representation of the relationship between tax rates, tax revenue, and taxable income. It is frequently cited by people who want to explain the common-sense notion that ...

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 ...

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 ...