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 ...

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 ...

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 charts a relationship between tax rates and tax revenue. While the theory behind the Laffer Curve is widely accepted, the concept has become very controversial because politicians on ...

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 ...

Economist Arthur Laffer and President Donald Trump during a presentation ceremony of the Presidential Medal of Freedom at the White House in 2019. (Oliver Contreras/For The Washington Post) In his ...

“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.