This is a list of books and reports that discuss subsidy deals involving specific companies or industries. The company and industry case studies elsewhere on this site also contain references to relevant newspaper and magazine articles.

1,000 Friends of Wisconsin, Wisconsin's Tax Incremental Finance Law: Lending a Hand to Blighted Areas or Turning Cornfields into Parking Lots? October 1999; online at www.1000friendsofwisconsin.com/TIF.shtml.

Joanna Cagan and Neil deMause, Field of Schemes: How the Great Stadium Swindle Turns Public Money into Private Profit. Monroe, ME: Common Courage Press, rev. ed., 1998.

Arindrajit Dube and Ken Jacobs, Hidden Cost of Wal-Mart Jobs: Use of Safety Net Programs by Wal-Mart Workers in California. UC Berkeley Labor Center, August 2, 2004; available online at
http://laborcenter.berkeley.edu/lowwage/walmart.pdf . An important study of hidden taxpayer costs.

Good Jobs New York, Know When to Fold 'Em: Time to Walk Away from NYC's Corporate Retention Game. February 2004; available online at
http://www.goodjobsny.org/pdf/GJNY_report_final.pdf. Includes information on numerous financial institutions and other companies that have pressured New York officials for subsidies under the threat of moving their offices of out the city.

Robert Goodman, The Last Entrepreneurs: America's Regional Wars for Jobs and Dollars. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1979. This early work on the subject contains references to numerous companies that took advantage of the cutthroat competition among states to lure investment.

David Karjanen and Murtaza Baxamusa (Center on Policy Initiatives), Subsidizing Wal-Mart: A Case Study of the College Grove Redevelopment Project. Published by the California Partnership for Working Families, November 2003; available online at http://www.onlinecpi.org/pdf/Subsidizing%20WalMart.pdf.

Greg LeRoy, The Great American Jobs Scam: Corporate Tax Dodging and the Myth of Job Creation. San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2005. Contains descriptions of deals involving Boeing, Dell, Fidelity Investments, Wal-Mart and many more companies. Also has extensive documentation.

Philip Mattera and Mafruza Khan, Jail Breaks: Economic Development Subsidies Given to Private Prisons. Washington, DC: Good Jobs First, October 2001; available online at http://www.goodjobsfirst.org/pdf/jailbreaks.pdf.

Philip Mattera and Anna Purinton, Shopping for Subsidies: How Wal-Mart Uses Taxpayer Money to Finance Its Never-Ending Growth. Washington, DC: Good Jobs First, May 2004; available online at http://www.goodjobsfirst.org/pdf/wmtstudy.pdf. For updated info on this topic, see our Wal-Mart Subsidy Watch website.

Jeff McCourt and Greg LeRoy, A Better Deal for Illinois: Improving Economic Development Policy. Washington, DC: Good Jobs First, January 2003; available online at
http://www.goodjobsfirst.org/pdf/il.pdf. Contains analyses of subsidy deals given to companies such as Boeing, Ford Motor, Motorola and Sears Roebuck.

Zack Nauth, The Great Louisiana Tax Giveaway, Louisiana Coalition for Tax Justice, n.d. [1992]. Describes huge tax breaks given to chemical companies, oil & gas producers and other corporations in the state.

New Jersey Policy Perspective, Telecom Giant Dials "M" for Money and New Jersey Picks Up the Charges. May 2005; available online at http://www.njpp.org/rpt_telcom.html. Critiques a subsidy deal for the phone company Verizon.

Policy Matters Ohio, A New Incentive for Ohio's Big Automotive Companies? November 2005. Analyzes state legislation that would provide subsidies to General Motors, Ford Motor, DaimlerChrysler, Honda and Delphi; available online at http://www.policymattersohio.org/pdf/HB414_letter.pdf.

Zach Schiller, Biotechnology in Northeast Ohio: A Growth Industry Takes It Slow. Policy Matters Ohio, January 2002; available online at http://www.policymattersohio.org/pdf/biomed.pdf.

Zach Schiller, Wal-Mart Special: Ohio Job Tax Credits to America's Richest Retailer. Policy Matters Ohio, July 2002, available online at http://www.policymattersohio.org/pdf/wal-mart.pdf.

Southwest Organizing Project, Intel Inside New Mexico: A Case Study of Environmental and Economic Injustice, 1995.

Dan Steinberg & Sarah Stecker, Pay or We (Might) Go: How Citigroup Plays the State and Cities. Good Jobs New York and New Jersey Policy Perspective, June 2007; available online at http://www.goodjobsfirst.org/pdf/citigroupplays.pdf.

Nate Stone and Chris Nevitt, Wal-Mart at Alameda Square: A Bad Investment for Denver. Front Range Economic Strategy Center, October 2003; available online at
http://fresc.unionactive.com/docs/Publications/Wal-Mart%20Issue%20Brief%20(2003%2010-23)%20-%20Bad%20Investment%20for%20Denver.pdf.