Preface
There have been many good books on subsidies written over the years. Unfortunately, the majority pertain to the United States. Some of those that have inspired the writing of this Primer are listed below.
Baker, Dean (2006). The Conservative Nanny State: How the Wealthy Use the Government to Stay Rich and Get Richer. Washington, D.C.: Center for Economic and Policy Research.
Finegen, Brian J. (2000). The Federal Subsidy Beast: The Rise of a Supreme Power in a Once Great Democracy. Sun Valley, Idaho: Alary Press.
Hacker, Jeffrey H. (1982). Government Subsidy to Industry. New York, London, Toronto and Sydney: Franklin Watts.
Messerlin, Patrick A. (2001), Measuring the Costs of Protection in Europe: European Commercial Policy in the 2000s, Institute for International Economics, Washington, D.C.
Myers, Norman and Jennifer Kent (2001). Perverse Subsidies: How Tax Dollars Can Undercut the Environment and the Economy. Washington and London: Island Press.
Nader, Ralph (2000). Cutting Corporate Welfare. The Open Media Pamphlet Series, No. 18. New York: Seven Stories Press.
Olson, Mancur (2000). Power and Prosperity: Outgrowing Communism and Capitalist Dictatorships. New York: Basic Books.
Pye-Smith, Charlie (2001). The Subsidy Scandal: How Governments Squander Public Money and Destroy the Environment. London: Earthscan Publications Ltd.
Wolfson, Dirk (1990). "Towards a theory of subsidization". In Ronald Gerritse (ed.), Producer Subsidies, pp. 1-19. London: Pinter Publishers.
World Trade Organization (2006), World Trade Report 2006: Exploring the Links between Subsidies, Trade and the WTO. Geneva: World Trade Organization
Tax concessions
Century Foundation Working Group on Tax Expenditures (2002). Bad Breaks All Around. New York: The Century Foundation Press.
International Forum on Tax Expenditures, Hana Polackova Brixi, Christian Valenduc, and Zhicheng Li Swift (2003). Tax Expenditures - Shedding Light on Government Spending Through the Tax System: Lessons from Developed and Transition Economies (Directions in Development).
Hybrid subsidies
LeRoy, Greg (2005). The Great American Jobs Scam: Corporate Tax Dodging and the Myth of Job Creation. San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc.
Derivative subsidies
Koplow, Doug (1996), "Energy subsidies and the Environment", in Subsidies and the Environment: Exploring the Linkages, Paris: OECD Publications, pp 201-218.
Runge, C. Ford (1996), "Environmental impacts of agriculture and forestry subsidies", in Subsidies and the Environment: Exploring the Linkages, Paris: OECD Publications, pp. 139-161.
Measuring subsidies
Peakock, Alan T. (1990). "Identifying and applying norms for subsidies to industry". In Ronald Gerritse (ed.), Producer Subsidies, pp. 20-31. London: Pinter Publishers.
Steenblik, Ronald P. (2003), "Subsidy measurement and classification: developing a common framework" In Environmentally Harmful Subsidies: Policy Issues and Challenges, Paris: OECD Publications, pp. 101-141.
Effects on economic efficiency
Merton, Robert K. (1936). "The unanticipated consequences of purposive social action", American Sociological Review, Volume 1, Issue 6 (December), pp. 894-904.
http://www.compilerpress.atfreeweb.com/AnnoMertonUnintended.htm
Tullock, Gordon (1975). "The transitional gains trap". Bell Journal of Economics, Vol. 6, No. 2 (Autumn), pp. 671-678.
Effects on the distribution of wealth and income
Rawls, John (1999 [1971]). A Theory of Justice. Revised Edition. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Belknap Press of Harved University Press.
Effects on the environment
Kosmo, Mark (1988). Money to Burn? The High Costs of Energy Subsidies. Washington, DC: World Resources Institute.
OECD (1996), Subsidies and Environment: Exploring the Linkages, Paris: OECD Publications.
Roodman, David Malin (1996). Paying the Piper: Subsidies, Politics, and the Environment. Worldwatch Paper No. 133. Washington, DC: Worldwatch Institute.
Steenblik, R.P. and P. Coroyannakis (1995). "Reform of coal policies in Western and Central Europe". Energy policy, vol. 23, no. 6, pp. 537-553.
Trade and international disciplines
Benitah, Marc (2001), The Law of Subsidies under the GATT/WTO System, Kluwer Law International, The Hague.
Benitah, Marc (2004), Subsidies, Services and Sustainable Development, Issue Paper No. 1, International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development, Geneva.
www.ictsd.org/pubs/ictsd_series/services/IP_services_01.pdf.
von Moltke, Konrad (2003), Negotiating Subsidy Reduction in the World Trade Organization. Winnipeg: IISD.
NGO-sponsored studies
Koplow, Doug and Aaron Martin (1998). Fueling Global Warming: Federal Subsidies to Oil in the United States. Cambridge, MA: Industrial Economics, Inc.
Schorr, David K. (2004), Healthy Fisheries, Sustainable Trade: Crafting New Rules on Fishing Subsidies in the World Trade Organization, Washington, D.C.: World Wildlife Fund
