Art Laffer

Arthur B. Laffer is the founder and chairman of Laffer Associates, an economic research and consulting firm that provides global investment research services to institutional asset managers, pension funds, financial institutions, and corporations.  Since inception in 1979, the firm’s research has focused on the interconnecting macroeconomic, political and demographic changes affecting global financial markets.

Dr. Laffer was a member of President Regan’s Economic Policy Advisory Board for both of his two terms (1981-1989).  He was a member of the Executive Committee of the Regan?Busch Finance Committee in 1984 and was a founding member of the Reagan Executive Advisory Committtee for the presidential race of 1980.  He also advised Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher on fiscal policy in the U.K. during the 1980s.  Dr. Laffer was noted in Time Magazine’s March 29, 1999 cover story “ The Century’s Greatest Minds” for inventing the Laffer Curve.
 
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 most recently, Return to Prosperity.

 

Dr. Laffer received a B.A in economics from Yale University in 1963.  He received a MBA and Ph. D. in economics from Stanford University.