Introduction and overview -- Alexander Hamilton, canals, and railroads -- Corporate welfare takes flight: how the SST was launched (and shot down) -- great giveaway : economic development, "incentives," and the corporate welfare wars -- Corporate welfare as theft : how Detroit and General Motors stole poletown -- reverse robin hood : the derring-do (on behalf of transnational corporations) of the Export-Import Bank -- will it ever end? or is there a future for an anti-corporate -- Welfare.