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On ‘Bringing Corporate Welfare In’: A Reply to Farnsworth (2)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 December 2012

ADRIAN SINFIELD*
Affiliation:
School of Social and Political Science, University of Edinburgh, 8 Buccleuch Place, Edinburgh email: [email protected]

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Kevin Farnsworth deserves congratulations and thanks for expanding the analysis of the distribution of public resources. In scrutinising the limited data on public subsidies and other support to business, he opens up important issues highly relevant to the study of welfare, both nationally and comparatively. I want to take advantage of this opportunity to reflect on his paper and pose some questions that I hope he and others will pursue as this area is developed.

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