Bounties on Agricultural Products: A Selected Bibliography

Excerpts from the Introduction: This bibliography has been limited as far as possible to references to direct bounties, except in the case of the indirect sugar bounties granted by various European countries in the eighteenth century, and the import certificate system which has recently been adopted or reintroduced by several countries. General references to the granting of bounties on sugar and to the various international conferences relating to the question of the sugar bounty are grouped together under the heading "sugar”. Legislation having the effect of granting a bounty, including government loans, tariff concessions, grants of statutory privileges, of patents of monopoly, of letters of protection, of privileges to medieval boroughs and gilds, exemption from taxation, reduced freight rates, free distribution of seeds, has not been taken into account. Bounties for the killing of wild and predatory animals granted by many of the American states in their early days have been omitted. Salt and a few commodities manufactured from agricultural products are included. The arrangement is alphabetical by country, and by author and title under the country.