We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. "You can explain it to a congressman in six minutes, and he can talk about it for six months," Hal Varian, an economist, once noted of the tax ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

A very strong case could be made that the most influential economist in the world in recent decades has been Arthur Laffer. Ever since the 1970s, Laffer has been at the tip of the spear of the global ...

Our economic system has evolved from a barter system. Our present system was greatly influenced by the desire to be able to easily transport trading goods. It is much more convenient than a barter ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...