Arthur B. Laffer

Dr Arthur B. Laffer, founder of Laffer Associates, is known as ‘The Father of Supply-Side Economics’. He advised both President Reagan and Prime Minister Thatcher on fiscal policy. In 1999, Time named him one of ‘the Century’s Greatest Minds’ for creating the Laffer curve. He received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2019, the highest civilian honour awarded by the United States, for his contributions to economics.