Subsidies influence human choices and behavior, and not always in positive ways. When they encourage undesirable behavior they are known as perverse subsidies.
An important example is incentives to pollute, particularly government subsidies given to the fossil fuel industries.
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| Created | March 5, 2010 by Chris Watkins |
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