[PEN-L:8758] Re: Re: RE: Re: the NFL and urban development

[Doug Henwood <dhenwood@xxxxxxxxx>]

Michael Perelman wrote:

>LeRoy has gathered wonderful statistics about the subsidy per job
>that has been
>given by state and local gov'ts.  Even the Fed. Reserve Bank of Minn. has come
>out against such subidies in general

There's a section of their website devoted to the topic -
<http://woodrow.mpls.frb.fed.us/sylloge/econwar/index.html>. I think
the Bank got interested when a libertarian staffer got irritated by
the huge and pointless state subsidy of Northwest Airlines in the
early 1990s.

Doug