New Book Decodes Trump’s Outside-the-Box Approach to Economics

Authors Stephen Moore (L) and Arthur Laffer at the Trumponomics book launch at the Four Seasons Restaurant, in New York City, on Oct. 29, 2018. Jillian Nelson

NEW YORK—The world has never seen an American president remotely like him. President Donald Trump’s outside-the-box political understanding has worked an economic miracle, according to top economists.

In the new book “Trumponomics: Inside the America First Plan to Revive Our Economy,” two of Trump’s former senior economic advisers try to define the president and the ideas behind his new economic theory, Trumponomics.