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 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 ...

Stephen Moore, who formerly wrote on the economy and public policy for The Wall Street Journal, is a distinguished visiting fellow for the Project for Economic Growth at The Heritage Foundation. He ...

We hope economist Arthur Laffer uses a fancy napkin today when enjoying his 75th birthday cake. The reference is to maybe the most famous napkin in American history. Dining with officials of President ...

A couple years ago I was interviewing Grover Norquist, head of Americans for Tax Reform, about economic policies and the 2008 election, and, as he told me repeatedly that lower taxes would yield ...

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 ...

I enjoyed the article about stand-up comedian and economist Yoram Bauman, a truly funny comedian (“An Economist Stands Up for a Less Dismal Science,” The Chronicle, January 3). However, I was ...

Goat herding is one of the world's oldest economic professions. It is because goats are excellent at reproduction, and easy to feed and raise. A female goat will on average birth around 2 kids per ...

Market contractions stall investment activity, with industry representatives saying no significant new investment has ...

High tax rates push more Britons overseas—and revenue down.