It's the Economy

5/19/2018 11:00 AM to 5/19/2018 12:00 PM

Hunting Valley Campus

Featuring Art Laffer '58, renowned economist and inventor of The Laffer Curve REGISTER

Dr. Laffer is the chairman of Laffer Associates, an institutional economic research and consulting firm, and Laffer Investments, an institutional investment management firm. His research focuses on the interconnecting macroeconomic, political and demographic changes affecting global financial markets.

Dr. Laffer has been widely acknowledged for his economic achievements. He was 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’s economic acumen and influence in triggering a world-wide 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. He was a member of President Reagan’s Economic Policy Advisory Board, a member of the executive committee of the Reagan/Bush Finance Committee, and a founding member of the Reagan Executive Advisory Committee for the presidential race of 1980. He also advised Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher on fiscal policy in the UK during the 1980s.

Dr. Laffer has written numerous books and has received many awards for his economic work.

He received a B.A. in economics from Yale University, and an MBA and a Ph.D. in economics from Stanford University.

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