Prosperity Through Growth: Boosting Living Standards in an Age of Autocracy and AI (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781785909467)

Arthur B. Laffer, Ph.D. is the founder and chairman of Laffer Associates, an economic research and consulting firm. A member of President Reagan's Economic Policy Advisory Board for both of his two terms, he invented the Laffer Curve and triggered a world-wide tax-cutting movement in the 1980s. Dr. Laffer received a B.A. in economics from Yale University and received a MBA and Ph.D. in economics from Stanford University.

Matthew Elliott is one of the UK's foremost public policy thinkers, having set up numerous policy campaigns, including the Taxpayers' Alliance in 2003. He has overseen two successful national referendum campaigns - the NOtoAV campaign in 2011 and the Vote Leave campaign in 2016 - and convened two influential policy commissions. He is currently the co-founder and president of the Jobs Foundation, a charity which champions the role of business as a force for good. Matthew is also a member of the House of Lords, where he sits as Lord Elliott of Mickle Fell.

Michael Hintze is a financier and businessman. He has held positions in Credit Suisse First Boston, Goldman Sachs and Salomon Brothers, before founding CQS Investment Management and Deltroit Asset Management. He also served as an officer in the Australian Army. Lord Hintze's philanthropy spans contributions to the arts, religious charities, military charities and education. He was made a Knight Commander of the Order of St Gregory by Pope Benedict XVI and was subsequently elevated to the rank of Knight Grand Cross. He was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia in 2008 and was made a Knight Bachelor by Queen Elizabeth II. In 2022, he was granted a life peerage by King Charles III and sits in the House of Lords as Baron Hintze.

Douglas McWilliams sold the Centre for Economics and Business Research (Cebr), the economics consultancy that he had founded thirty-five years earlier, in autumn 2024 to a management buyout. Cebr has become well known, especially for its World Economic League Table published on Boxing Day each year. Before setting up Cebr, he had been chief economic adviser to the CBI and chief economist for IBM UK. Douglas had also chaired the Economics Committee of what is now called Business Europe in Brussels. While running Cebr, he was also the Gresham Professor of Commerce, and today he remains a member of the Growth Commission. Among his books, the best known are The Flat White Economy, about the emerging UK tech economy, and The Inequality Paradox, where he refutes Thomas Piketty's theory of exploitation.