From the time of Alexander Hamilton's "Report on Manufactures" through the Great Depression, American towns and cities sought to lure footloose companies by offering lavish benefits

Acknowledgments

Foreword by Ralph Nader

1. Introduction and Overview

2. Alexander Hamilton, Canals, and Railroads

3. Corporate Welfare Takes Flight: How the SST Was Launched (and Shot Down)

4. The Great Giveaway: Economic Development, "Incentives," and the Corporate Welfare Wars

5. Corporate Welfare as Theft: How Detroit and General Motors Stole Poletown

6. A Reverse Robin Hood: The Derring-Do (on Behalf of Transnational Corporations) of the Export-Import Bank

7. Conclusion: Will It Ever End? Or Is There a Future for an Anti-Corporate Welfare Coalition?

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