{"id":43240,"date":"2018-10-03T08:43:09","date_gmt":"2018-10-03T07:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=43240"},"modified":"2018-10-03T08:43:09","modified_gmt":"2018-10-03T07:43:09","slug":"breakfast-with-arthur-laffer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2018\/10\/03\/breakfast-with-arthur-laffer\/","title":{"rendered":"Breakfast with Arthur Laffer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have just had breakfast with Arthur Laffer. You know of him: he's the creator of the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Laffer_curve\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Curve<\/a>. And most amusing it was too. We agreed on a few things. One, in particular: that you can't do macro without understanding double entry.<\/p>\n<p>We're <a href=\"http:\/\/www.taxcoop-conference.com\/session\/le-grand-debat\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">debating later this morning in Paris<\/a>. I confess this should be fun. I will post my speaking notes later today.<\/p>\n<p>If I am distracted for a while, now you know why.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have just had breakfast with Arthur Laffer. You know of him: he&#8217;s the creator of the Curve. And most amusing it was too. We<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2018\/10\/03\/breakfast-with-arthur-laffer\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43240\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}