Arthur B. Laffer is the founder and chairman of Laffer Associates, an institutional economic research and consulting firm, as well as Laffer Investments, an institutional investment management firm utilizing diverse investment strategies. Laffer Associates’ research focuses on the interconnecting macroeconomic, political and demographic changes affecting global financial markets. Laffer Investments’ investment management strategies utilize some of the economic principles and models pioneered by Dr. Laffer, as well as other unique offerings managed by the firm’s portfolio management group. The firms provide research and investment management services to a diverse group of clients, which includes institutions, pension funds, corporations, endowments, foundations, individuals and others.
His economic acumen and influence in triggering a worldwide tax-cutting movement in the 1980s have earned him the distinction in many publications as “The Father of Supply-Side Economics.” One of his earliest successes in shaping public policy was his involvement in Proposition 13, the groundbreaking California initiative that drastically cut property taxes in the state in 1978.
Dr. Laffer is the author of a number of books, including The End of Prosperity: How Higher Taxes Will Doom the Economy—If We Let it Happen, which was a nominee for the F.A. Hayek book award in 2009, and Return to Prosperity: How America Can Regain Its Economic Superpower Status, and most recently, Eureka! How to Fix California.
He has been widely acknowledged for his economic achievements, including being noted in Time magazine’s March 29, 1999, cover story “The Century’s Greatest Minds” for inventing the Laffer Curve, which it deemed one of “a few of the advances that powered this extraordinary century.” Dr. Laffer was listed in “A Dozen Who Shaped the ‘80s,” in The Los Angeles Times on January 1, 1990, and in “A Gallery of the Greatest People Who Influenced Our Daily Business,” in The Wall Street Journal on June 23, 1989. His creation of the Laffer Curve was deemed a “memorable event” in financial history by the Institutional Investor in its July 1992 Silver Anniversary issue, “The Heroes, Villains, Triumphs, Failures, and Other Memorable Events.”
Internationally influential economist, Arthur Laffer offers his valued insights on how economic conditions and policies affect your industry. He is frequently called upon by city, state, and national governments to give expert advice on policies and tax plans so that their areas can see healthy economic growth. Dr. Laffer makes the mathematics of economics easy-to-follow with relatable examples and studies that back up his theories.
Dr. Laffer customizes each program. These are just general topic ideas:
- The Economic Outlook
- on the Economy
- An Economic History of our Nation
- Rich States, Poor States:
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