Accountable Development

Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele. "Special Report: Corporate Welfare," Time magazine, November 9, 1998.

A Better Deal for Illinois: Improving Economic Development Policy. Good Jobs First, 2003.

Melvin L. Burstein and Arthur J. Rolnick. "Congress Should End the Economic War Among the States." Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis 1994 Annual Report Essay, March 1995.

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

James C. Cobb. The Selling of the South: The Southern Crusade for Industrial Development, 1936-1990, Chicago: University of Illinois Press: 1993.

Connecticut's Development Subsidies: Job Growth Far Short of Projections, High Costs per Job. Northeast Action, 2002.

Economic Development in Minnesota: High Subsidies, Low Wages, Absent Standards. Good Jobs First, 1999.

Economic Development in Washington, D.C. Good Jobs First, 2002.

Economic Development Subsidies in Maine: Maine's Economic Development Subsidies in 1998-99: Tax Credits Yield Few New Jobs at High Cost per Job. Northeast Action, 2001.

Examining the Evidence: The Impact of the Los Angeles Living Wage Ordinance on Workers and Businesses. University of California and Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy, 2005.

Peter Fisher and Alan Peters. "The Failures of Economic Development Incentives," Journal of the American Planning Association, Vol. 70, No. 1, Winter 2004.

Peter S. Fisher and Alan H. Peters. Industrial Incentives: Competition Among American States and Cities, Kalamazoo, MI: W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, 1998.

Peter Fisher and Elaine Ditsler. Taxes and State Economic Growth: The Myths and the Reality. Iowa Policy Project, 2003.

Mary E. Forsberg. Single Factor: Double Trouble. New Jersey Policy Perspective, 2001.

Get Something Back! How Civic Engagement is Raising Economic Development Expectations in Minnesota. Good Jobs First, 2003.

Robert Goodman. The Last Entrepreneurs: America's Regional War for Jobs and Dollars. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1979.

Julian Gross with Greg LeRoy and Madeline Janis-Aparicio. Community Benefits Agreements--Making Development Projects Accountable. Good Jobs First and the California Partnership for Working Families, 2005.

Jay Hancock. Series of ten articles about economic development incentives, The Baltimore Sun, October 1999, 1A.

Roger Hayter. Dynamics of Industrial Location: The Factory, the Firm, and the Production System. Indianapolis: John Wiley and Sons, 1997.

In Search of the Great Pumpkin: Economic Development Accountability in North Dakota. Good Jobs First, 2002.

Jail Breaks: Economic Development Subsidies Given to Private Prisons. Good Jobs First, 2001.

Craig L. Johnson and Joyce Y. Man, editors. Tax Increment Financing and Economic Development: Uses, Structures, and Impact. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2001.

Kentucky's Low Road to Economic Development: What Corporate Subsidies are Doing to the Commonwealth. Democracy Resource Center and Kentucky Economic Justice Alliance, 2000.

Know When to Fold 'Em: Time to Walk Away from NYC's "Corporate Retention" Game. Good Jobs New York, February 2004.

Greg LeRoy. The Great American Jobs Scam: Corporate Tax Dodging and the Myth of Job Creation. San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2005.

Greg LeRoy. No More Candy Store: States and Cities Making Job Subsidies Accountable, 1994.

Greg LeRoy and Anna Purinton. Community Benefits Agreements: Ensuring that Urban Redevelopment Benefits Everyone, Neighborhood Funders Group issue brief, August 2005.

The LMDC: They're in the Money; We are in the Dark. Good Jobs New York, 2004.

Robert G. Lynch. Rethinking Growth Strategies: How State and Local Taxes and Services Affect Economic Development, Economic Policy Institute, 2004.

Michael Mazerov. Should Congress Authorize States to Continue Giving Tax Breaks to Business? Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, 2005.

Michael Mazerov. The "Single Sales Factor" Formula for State Corporate Taxes: A Boon to Economic Development or a Costly Giveaway? Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, 2001.

Minding the Candy Store: State Audits of Economic Development. Good Jobs First, 2000.

Zack Nauth. The Great Louisiana Tax Giveaway, Louisiana Coalition for Tax Justice, n.d. [1992].

Roger G. Noll and Andrew Zimbalist, editors. Sports, Jobs, and Taxes. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 1997.

No More Secret Candy Store: A Grassroots Guide to Investigating Development Subsidies. Good Jobs First, 2002.

The Policy Shift to Good Jobs: Cities, States, and Counties Attaching Job Quality Standards to Development Subsidies. Good Jobs First, 2003.

Protecting Public Education from Tax Giveaways to Corporations. Good Jobs First report for the National Education Association, 2003.

The Sector Solution: Building a Broad Base for the New Economy. The Center for an Urban Future, 2001.

Shopping for Subsidies: How Wal-Mart Uses Taxpayer Money to Finance Its Never-Ending Growth. Good Jobs First, 2004. [Updated information on this topic can be found on our Wal-Mart Subsidy Watch website.]

Straying from Good Intentions: How States are Weakening Enterprise Zone and Tax Increment Financing Programs. Good Jobs First, 2003.

Subsidizing the Low Road: Economic Development in Baltimore. Good Jobs First, 2002.

Kenneth Thomas. Competing for Capital: Europe and North America in a Global Era. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2000.

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Tax Incentive Guide for Businesses in Renewal Communities, Enterprise Zones, and Enterprise Communities, 2003.

Smart Growth for Working Families

Another Way Sprawl Happens: Economic Development Subsidies in a Twin Cities Suburb. Good Jobs First, 2000.

Assessing the Economic Impact of Transportation Projects. Transportation Research circular, October 1997.

Costs of Sprawl 2000. Transit Cooperative Research Program, 2000.

Joel S. Hirschhorn. Sprawl Kills: How Blandburbs Steal Your Time, Health, and Money. New York: Sterling and Ross, 2005.

The Jobs are Back in Town: Urban Smart Growth and Construction Employment. Good Jobs First, 2003.

Labor Leaders as Smart Growth Advocates: How Unions See Suburban Sprawl and Work for Smart Growth Solutions. Good Jobs First, 2003.

Greg LeRoy. The Great American Jobs Scam: Corporate Tax Dodging and the Myth of Job Creation. San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2005.

Greg LeRoy, "Smart Growth for Cities: It's a Union Thing," WorkingUSA, Summer 2002.

Barbara McCann, Driven to Spend, Surface Transportation Policy Project, March 19, 2000.

Missing the Bus: How States Fail to Connect Economic Development with Public Transit. Good Jobs First, 2003.

Myron Orfield. Metropolitics: A Regional Agenda for Community and Stability. Brookings Institution, 1997.

"Redeveloping Brownfields Could Generate 576,000 New Jobs, $1.9 Billion in Tax Revenue," The United States Conference of Mayors, June 2003.

Smart Growth and Workforce Development. Good Jobs First, 2000.

Smart Growth is Smart Business: Boosting the Bottom Line and Community Prosperity. NALGEP and the Smart Growth Leadership Institute, 2004.

Talking to Union Leaders about Smart Growth. Good Jobs First, 2001.