De-escalating the “Economic War Among the States” and Reforming the Development Subsidy Game
August 2, 2000. A presentation by Frank J. Mauro, Executive Director, Fiscal Policy Institute, at the Syracuse University Continuing Education Program's Summer Lecture Series, "The Role of Financial Incentives in State and Local Economic Development." Throughout our nation's history, state and local governments have done much to facilitate the growth and development of the American economy. They built an impressive physical infrastructure and developed the nation's human capital without which our private sector economy could not have prospered. In fact, almost everything that state and [...]