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Investment Incentives and the Global Competition for Capital

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Part of the book series: International Political Economy Series (IPES)

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
  2. Competing for Capital Revisited

    • Kenneth P. Thomas
    Pages 1-17
  3. Models, Models and More Models

    • Kenneth P. Thomas
    Pages 18-38
  4. Policy Studies

    • Kenneth P. Thomas
    Pages 39-48
  5. Back Matter

    Pages 163-201

About this book

This is a global study of government subsidies to attract investment. The book shows how corporations use site selection as rent extraction, with developing countries investing more than developed ones. It demonstrates that incentive use is rarely a good policy, especially for countries without adequate education and infrastructure.

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"What if the government passed a law requiring every business to pay a tax except your competitor's business? That kind of government meddling in the market goes on every day in America.Now, thanks to a book being published by Palgrave Macmillan titled Investment Incentives and the Global Competition for Capital, we have some idea of how much these giveaways to businesses cost and the harm they are doing. In 200 packed pages, Prof. Kenneth P. Thomas, a political scientist at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, documents how tax giveaways to big business are growing around the globe. . ." - David Cay Johnston, Tax.com

Authors and Affiliations

  • Center for International Studies, University of Missouri-St. Louis, USA

    Kenneth P. Thomas

About the author

KENNETH P. THOMAS Associate Professor of Political Science and Fellow in the Center for International Studies at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, USA. He is an expert on multinational corporations, competition for investment, and subsidies.

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Softcover Book USD 109.99
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