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    • Chapter 1: Whatever
    • Chapter 2: Income Tax Avoidance—The Income of the Rich Is Not What It Seems
    • Chapter 3: Beyond Piketty—The Laffer Curve is Alive and Well
    • Chapter 4: Tax Cuts of the Roaring 1920s
    • Chapter 5: The Smoot-Hawley Tariff, the Revenue Act of 1932, and Crush of the Great Depression
    • Chapter 6: Tax Rates and the Persistence of the Great Depression
    • Chapter 7: Unindicted Co-Conspirators: States and Localities During the Great Depression
    • Chapter 8: World War II and the Economy
    • Chapter 9: Government Retreat and the Emergence of Post-World War II Prosperity
    • Chapter 10: High Tax Rates and the Sluggish 1950s
    • Chapter 11: The Growth Takeoff of the 1960s
    • Chapter 12: The States After World War II
    • Chapter 13: Taxes and Stagflation
    • Chapter 14: The Great Boom, 1982-2000
    • Chapter 15: Sluggishness in the 2000s
    • Chapter 16: The Trump Tax Cut and Economic Resurgence into 2020
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  • About
    • The Mission
    • About Dr. Arthur B. Laffer
      • Laffer and Fischer Black take on Friedman and Monetarism
      • Challenging Friedman and Triffin
      • Arthur Laffer at OMB, 1970-72
    • About the Laffer Curve
      • The Early Laffer Curve, 1974
    • About Supply-Side Economics
      • Supply-Side History
  • Supply-Side Basics
    • The 5 Pillars of Prosperity
    • Free Course on Supply-side Economics
    • Noteworthy Papers, Media, and Much More on Supply-Side
      • Noteworthy Papers
      • Noteworthy Videos
  • Books
    • Taxes Have Consequences
    • The Emergence of Arthur Laffer
    • The Pillars of Reaganomics
    • An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of States
    • Econoclasts
    • Handbook of Tabacco Taxation
    • Eureka!
  • Taxes Have Consequences
    • Frontispiece/dust jacket
    • Chapter 1: Whatever
    • Chapter 2: Income Tax Avoidance—The Income of the Rich Is Not What It Seems
    • Chapter 3: Beyond Piketty—The Laffer Curve is Alive and Well
    • Chapter 4: Tax Cuts of the Roaring 1920s
    • Chapter 5: The Smoot-Hawley Tariff, the Revenue Act of 1932, and Crush of the Great Depression
    • Chapter 6: Tax Rates and the Persistence of the Great Depression
    • Chapter 7: Unindicted Co-Conspirators: States and Localities During the Great Depression
    • Chapter 8: World War II and the Economy
    • Chapter 9: Government Retreat and the Emergence of Post-World War II Prosperity
    • Chapter 10: High Tax Rates and the Sluggish 1950s
    • Chapter 11: The Growth Takeoff of the 1960s
    • Chapter 12: The States After World War II
    • Chapter 13: Taxes and Stagflation
    • Chapter 14: The Great Boom, 1982-2000
    • Chapter 15: Sluggishness in the 2000s
    • Chapter 16: The Trump Tax Cut and Economic Resurgence into 2020
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Articles / April 07,2021

Robert Mundell: The Zeus of Economics has Died

I spent all weekend thinking about Bob Mundell. I had just gotten the hard copy of my own book released several weeks ago, and I was reading it, beginning with the dedication: To Bob Mundell. Robert A. Mundell, the 1999 Nobel Prizewinner in economics and...

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Noteworthy Papers / April 05,2021

Robert Mundell: The Zeus of Economics Has Died

Robert A. Mundell, the 1999 Nobel Prizewinner in economics and in an easy argument the greatest economist of the last several generations, died April 4 in his beloved Italy at the age of 88....

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Articles / February 18,2021

George Shultz, Arthur Laffer, and the Economic Debate of the Nixon Years

On the death of legendary public servant George P. Shultz several days ago, the New Republic ran an extraordinary piece of historical reflection, Bruce Bartlett’s “George Shultz, the Godfather of the Discredited Laffer Curve.” Bartlett’s piece uses Shultz’s death as the merest of pretexts for its...

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Noteworthy Videos / August 14,2020

ECON 101 with Dr. Art Laffer

Take a couple of minutes to brush up on your free market knowledge with a crash course from Dr. Laffer. ...

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Noteworthy Papers / July 01,2020

Monetary Policy Played Second Fiddle in the Great Depression

It’s a fact: economists know that monetary policy caused the Great Depression. The economy of the late 1920s was overheated with a bloated stock market—caused by excessive tax cuts for the rich, unsupervised banks and overleveraged credit. The inevitable reckoning came at the hands of...

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Articles / April 22,2020

Tax Cuts Made Mincemeat of the 73% Top Rate in the Roaring 20s

Professor Saez, the Svengali of raising tax rates on the rich, argues that a tax rate of 73% on the top 1% of income earners raises the most revenues. Somehow, he must have overlooked the 1920s when the highest tax rate was cut from exactly...

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Articles / April 06,2020

The Laffer Curve is Alive and Well — On the Left and the Right

When the recent public health crisis took shape in early March, one of the intriguing events that was postponed until the fall was a debate between Arthur Laffer and Emmanuel Saez on the issues of inequality, top income tax rates, and the possibility of a...

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Noteworthy Papers / July 17,2019

Tariffs and the Objectives of Political Leadership

In today’s world of political economics, the topic of international trade is only large enough to accommodate two points of view: one that believes in free trade and one that believes in protectionist policies. You’re either in one group or the other. Both pure trade...

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