Subsidies for Stock Pickers
An impending power grab by Eliot Spitzer, the Democrat attorney general for New York, threatens to disrupt Wall Street and the entire system of capital allocation. What used to be one of the freest financial markets in the world is about to go ... [... more]
Ludwig von Mises Institute |
Perverse Subsidies: How Tax Dollars Harm the Environment ...
Government Sponsored Perversity: Norman Myers and Jennifer Kent have written a comprehensive and engaging book about what turns out to be one of the biggest impediments to environmental quality and sustainablity - perverse subsidies. The book does a [... more]
$30.00
Amazon.com |
Money, Time, and Politics: Investment Tax Subsidies and ...
Since the end of World War II, the American federal government has actively supported regressive supply side tax subsidies for businesses in order to stimulate capital investment. In this book Ronald F. King traces U.S. taxation politics during the last [... more]
$59.18
A1 Books |
Perverse Subsidies: How Misused Tax Dollars Harm The ...
Much of the global economy depends upon large-scale government intervention in the form of subsidies, both direct and indirect, to support specific industries or economic sectors. Distressingly, many of these subsidies can be characterized as perverse -- [... more]
$46.02
A1 Books |
Subsidies in World Fisheries: A Reexamination (World ...
Subsidies in World Fisheries: A Reexamination (World Bank Technical Paper, No 406) [... more]
$38.95
A1 Books |
Politics, Subsidies and Competition: The New Politics of ...
Politics, Subsidies and Competition: The New Politics of State Intervention in the European Union [... more]
$86.38
A1 Books |
How to Find Subsidized Housing
Subsidized housing is designed to help people with low and moderate incomes live in safe and decent housing. Subsidies are offered by the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). Go to your local housing authority office. Find it by ... [... more]
eHow |
Health Affairs
Total Federal and State tax subsidies for employer-sponsored health care coverage for active workers will exceed $200 billion in 2006, an inflation-adjusted increase of more than 150 percent since 1987, according to a new study sponsored by the ... [... more]
Agency for Healthcare Research |
Federal Transit Subsidies;: The Urban Mass ...
Federal Transit Subsidies;: The Urban Mass Transportation Assistance Program (evaluative Studies, 17) [... more]
$45.24
A1 Books |
Cheeseburgers When Subsidized
Corn, wheat, sugar and a dozen other crops all got increased subsidies in the recent Farm Bill, signed with terrifying agreement. Is there an end in sight? One overlooked clue while those crops are fetching sky-high prices in that other system ... [... more]
Ludwig von Mises Institute |
Can Free Trade Really Prevent War?
The Classical Liberals of the nineteenth century were certain that the end of the old Mercantilist system--with its government control of trade and commerce, its bounties (subsidies) and prohibitions on exports and imports--would open wide vistas ... [... more]
Ludwig von Mises Institute |
Farmed Robbery
In his newly-released federal budget President George W. Bush promises to reduce farm subsidies. Predictably, on the day the budget was made public there were well-choreographed "protests" by all the usual suspects, mostly millionaire corporate [... more]
Ludwig von Mises Institute |