This book explores the origins of Arthur Laffer’s economic theories and how they became a part of mainstream economic policy. Utilizing interviews and archival material, Laffer’s life is traced from his early education through to his time working for the Nixon and Reagan administrations....

This book explores the origins of Arthur Laffer’s economic theories and how they became a part of mainstream economic policy. Utilizing interviews and archival material, Laffer’s life is traced from his early education through to his time working for the Nixon and Reagan administrations....

Part I: Crony Capitalists and Their ‘Free’ Market School Of Economics -- 1. ‘Free’ Market ‘Knowledge’ -- 2. The Deception Plans of the ‘Aristocratic Revolution’: ‘von’ Hayek I, II and III -- 3. The Deluding and the Deluded -- 4. Summoned by Bells to Aristocratic Service -- 5....

Funded by the tobacco and fossil fuel industries, the Mises- and Hayek-inspired "free" market has adopted "The Slogan of Liberty" - but should their faith-based assertions be accorded the same epistemological status as a science? If Austrian economics is a branch of divinely revealed "knowledge"...

This volume, Part XII, examines the "free" market Use of Knowledge in Society; examines the foundations of "free" market educational credentials; and asks whether those funded by the tobacco industry and the carbon lobby should be accorded "independent policy expert" status.