Jeanne Sinquefield

Apr 15, 2024 | lawliberty.org | Brian Domitrovic |with Arthur Laffer |Jeanne Sinquefield |David Krugler

Steve Lawrence, who died last month, had a hit with Eydie Gormé in 1960 with the most delightful song, “This Could Be the Start of Something,” which was the theme of Steve Allen’s Tonight show. The song was about competent young adults living large in the great 1950s prosperity.

Jan 26, 2024 | lawliberty.org | Brian Domitrovic |with Arthur Laffer |Jeanne Sinquefield |Oren Cass

The United States became the largest economy in the world, at the apex of the global industrial revolution in the late nineteenth century, with a tariff as its predominant form of national taxation. This inescapable association retains essential significance for the political economy of the nation today. Identifying and reflecting upon that significance can have the salient effect of nourishing our contemporary political-economic discourse with the formidable resources of our past.

Jan 16, 2024 | lawliberty.org | Quinn Slobodian |Brian Domitrovic |with Arthur Laffer |Jeanne Sinquefield

In Crack-up Capitalism, Quinn Slobodian examines an essential feature of the modern global economy. This is the existence of “zones” providing investors and affluent residents exemptions from taxes, regulations, and even exposure to the social problems of the surrounding region. Examples would include Hong Kong before the recent crackdown, Canary Wharf in London, Liechtenstein, gated communities in the United States, and private enclaves in South Africa and Central America, Dubai, and Singapore.

Sep 11, 2023 | lawliberty.org | Christopher England |Brian Domitrovic |with Arthur Laffer |Jeanne Sinquefield

In Christopher England’s Land & Liberty we at last have a modern book on the remarkable political economist Henry George (1839–97). George was the expositor of the “single tax,” the proposition that the only justifiable tax is on the full rental value of land in its unimproved state. However arcane this position on taxes, George’s influence was immense and multifarious.