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 ...

Widespread falls in hiring and increases in redundancies are a textbook demonstration of how tax can destroy economic activity. Labour’s National Insurance rise is proving economic theory before our ...

Reader MJ argues that the Laffer Curve remains important because even if we're not actually maximizing tax revenue, it offers an insight into the economic cost of taxation: "I also take it to mean ...

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… ...

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - Do you remember the Laffer Curve? He's baaack. In the 1970s Arthur Laffer drew a curve on a napkin to show a basic principle. Tax rates of 0% and 100% produce no tax revenue ...

The field of economics fully developed scientifically in the 20th century. The names John Maynard Keynes, Milton Friedman, and Friedrich Hayek come to mind. However, one additional man became the one ...

The unsung hero of the GOP Christmas gift of a tax cut is Arthur Laffer -- the Reagan economist who helped devise the Gipper's tax reductions. Those tax cuts rebuilt the U.S. economy in the 1980s and ...

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 ...