At a legendary 1974 Washington dinner, economist Arthur Laffer supposedly sketched his famous curve on a napkin, demonstrating how excessive taxation could reduce government revenue. Now researchers ...

Reviewed by Lea D. Uradu Fact checked by Yarilet Perez 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—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 ...

This article was first published on the Dorf on Law site. Everyone would like to find win-win solutions to problems. If there is no pain associated with a policy proposal, there is likely to be no ...

The Laffer Curve is the most famous, non-empirical economic concept of the last fifty years. The idea, famously sketched by then USC-economics professor Arthur Laffer, was that there was some ...

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.

Please Note: Blog posts are not selected, edited or screened by Seeking Alpha editors. The Laffer Curve, which was invented by economist Dr. Arthur Laffer, explains the complex relationship between ...

An interesting little set of numbers here. Numbers that show us that the estate tax, or if you prefer the death tax, is already too high. We would in fact gain more revenue if we simply abolished it ...

WASHINGTON — It is one of the iconic moments in modern economics: A young professor named Arthur Laffer sketched a curve on a bar napkin in 1974 to show an aide to President Gerald R. Ford why the ...

A STATE LEGISLATOR and your business columnist were having an e-mail discussion recently about economicdevelopment incentives, a favorite topic of this space. Wrote the legislator: "It's a very ...

President Donald Trump will tomorrow award the Presidential Medal of Freedom to supply side economist Arthur Laffer. The medal is the nation’s highest civilian honor, for “especially meritorious ...