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Why cities should stop playing Amazon's game and quit offering companies tax incentives

  • Written by Amihai Glazer, Professor of Economics, University of California, Irvine
Amazon will not build their second headquarters in Long Island City.AP Photo/Mark Lennihan

New York City should count its blessings.

Amazon’s decision to walk away from its plan to build a new headquarters in Queens stunned city and state officials, who had promised US$3 billion in incentives in exchange for some 25,000 jobs. They had never...

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