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...Arthur Laffer told a Harvard audience he hopes our generation will enjoy the same opportunities as his generation...
...Arthur Laffer, a University of Southern California economist whom Buckley called "the progenitor of that beautiful curve," predicted that tax cuts will stimulate investment and increase employement. "The best form of welfare is still a high-paying job," he added...
...Harvard Conservative Club sponsored the debate, which featured Buckley, Galbraith, Bleiburg, Laffer, Robert Lekachman, an economist from Columbia University, and four Harvard students.CrimsonTimothy W. PlassWILLIAM F. BUCKLEY's [left] "conservative black" suit and JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH's [right] "pale grey liberal" suit set the tone for last night's debate at Sanders Theater of the Reagan administration's economic policies. JOHN OAKES [center], former editorial page editor of The New York Times, looks...
...Laffer curve, they say, fell off the table and onto the lap of America. The details of that encounter grew larger than life, as Wanniski used the editorial pages of his newspaper to spread the doctrine of balancing the budget by cutting taxes. Laffer meanwhile became the guru of the cult--young and virile, he embodied the youthful energy that massive taxcuts and comprehensive deregulation could unleash, a spirit of enterprise and discipline that would signal the awakening of a new America. Crackpots, more conventional economists called them, but the three set their nets out and fished for disciples, drawing...
...describes it in his article as a sense of ideological purity--there could be no disjunction between politics and economics for David Stockman. The faith in the future and goodness of America, hard work and private enterprise was the same that inspired his confidence in the theories of Arthur Laffer and the tax cut of Congressmen Kemp and Roth...