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Magazines

Burstein, Melvin L. and Rolnick, Arthur J. "Congress Should End the Economic War Among the States," The Region, March 1995.

"Civil War, round two." Barron's, April 3, 1995.

Mathesian, Charles. 1994. Romancing the Smokestack. Governing (November): 36-38.

"Measuring the best economic developers." American Economic and Business Developer, January-February 1996.

"Weigh sports subsidies against other public goods," Minnesota Journal, December 19, 1995.

Books and Academic Journals

Bartik, Timothy J. Who Benefits from State and Local Economic Development Policies? Kalamazoo, Mich.: W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, 1991.

Brown, Ernest J. 1957. "The Open Economy: Justice Frankfurter and the Position of the Judiciary." Yale Law Journal, Vol. 67: 219.

Cohen, William. 1985. "Federalism in Equality Clothing: A Comment on Metropolitan Life Insurance Company v. Ward." Stanford Law Review, Vol. 38: 1.

"Financial Incentives—Economic Boon or Bane?" The Journal of Applied Manufacturing Systems, Winter 1995-96.

Frankfurter, Felix. 1937. The Commerce Clause Under Marshall, Taney and White. Quadrangle Books: 1963.

Friedman, Miles. "Governments Can Use Incentives Rationally." Economic Development Review Fall 1994.

Holmes, Thomas J. 1995. "Analyzing a Proposal to Ban State Tax Breaks to Businesses." Quarterly Review. (Spring) Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis.

"Is state and local competition for firms harmful?" Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco Weekly Letter, August 4, 1995.

Samuelson, Paul A. 1954. "The Pure Theory of Public Expenditures." Review of Economics and Statistics, Vol. 36, No. 4, (November): 387-89.

Schweke, William, Carl Rist, and Brian Dabson. 1994. "Bidding for Business: Are Cities and States Selling Themselves Short?" Corporation for Enterprise Development, Washington, D.C.

Taylor, Mark. 1994. "A Proposal to Prohibit Industrial Relocation Subsidies." Texas Law Review, Vol. 72: 669-13.

Tiebout, Charles M. 1956. "A Pure Theory of Local Expenditures."
Journal of Political Economy
, Vol. 64, No. 5, (October):416-24.

Newspapers

"A state of siege,"Star Tribune (Minneapolis), June 10, 1996.

"Allen ties incentives to plant performance: 'Corporate welfare' still draws questions," The Washington Times, August 10, 1995.

"APA Optics can see glimmer of profits," St. Paul Pioneer Press, August 17, 1995.

"Battle to attract firms, teams hurting some states, experts agree," The Washington Post, May 24, 1996.

"Budget amendment needs fine-tuning," St. Paul Pioneer Press, April 14, 1995.

"Conference to examine subsidies." St. Paul Pioneer Press, March 9, 1996.

"Courting costs," CityBusiness (Minneapolis), April 14, 1995.

"End bidding war for jobs," Duluth News Tribune, August 20, 1995.

"Federal officials dislike state business incentives," Rapid City Journal, April 15, 1995.

"Government subsidies for private businesses ought to be stopped," Star Tribune (Minneapolis), December 1, 1995.

"Interstate competition for industry is harmful," Star Tribune (Minneapolis), June 8, 1996.

"Is recovery aid giveaway or a way to win jobs?" Star Tribune (Minneapolis), March 20, 1995.

"M.C. may lose a 'rose' it uses to woo firms," Christian Science Monitor, August 28, 1995.

"O Governor, Won't You Buy Me a Mercedes Plant?" New York Times, September 1, 1996.

"Public loses in economic war," Grand Forks Herald, June 8, 1995.

"Should states buy investment?" Investor's Business Daily, August 16, 1995.

"State business wars hurt U.S.," Grand Forks Herald, June 18, 1995.

"State economic fund stirs controversy." St. Paul Pioneer Press, March 20, 1995.

"Tax breaks break taxpayers' backs, economist says," St. Cloud Times (Minnesota), February 9, 1996.

"Tax giveaways to entice business backfire on states," USA Today, October 25, 1995.

"The Economic War Among the States," The Region, June 1996.

"Vying for industry," Star Tribune (Minneapolis), April 19, 1996.

"War between the states: Competitors trying to lure distant companies may prove unproductive," Chicago Tribune, June 25, 1995.

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