supply-side economics

economic theory

Also known as: trickle-down economics

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Also Known As:: trickle-down economics

supply-side economics, theory that focuses on influencing the supply of labor and goods, using tax cuts and benefit cuts as incentives to work and produce goods. It was expounded by the U.S. economist Arthur Laffer (b. 1940) and implemented by President Ronald Reagan in the 1980s. Supporters of his economic program, which became known as Reaganomics, point to the economic growth of the 1980s as proof of its efficacy; detractors point to the massive federal deficits and speculation that accompanied that growth.

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