Discover how the Laffer Curve illustrates the impact of tax rates on government revenue and fuels political debate.

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 ...

A number of people around the econ blogosphere (Tyler, just as one example) are pointing to this piece about how we seem to have spotted the Laffer Curve in the wild in the income tax system of the UK ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

One of my frustrating missions in life is to educate policy makers on the Laffer Curve. This means teaching folks on the left that tax policy affects incentives to earn and report taxable income. As ...

“The Laffer Curve, and Other Laughs in Current Economics.” That was the title of the last of Martin Gardner’s legendary “Mathematical Games” columns in Scientific American, published in December 1981.