Airport Privatization
I was making my first airplane trip after the September 11 attack, and boy was I afraid. I was headed right up through Terrorist Alley-from Montgomery, Alabama, through Memphis, Tennessee, to St. Louis, Missouri, and back again. Old Bin Laden ... [... more]
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The Privatization Decision: Public Ends, Private Means
 Challenging the Privatization Cure-All: In this book, John Donohue challenges the promise of privatization as a cure-all to the problems of government. He offers a persuasive argument which defines the two realms of privatization, and follows up with a [... more]
$23.00
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The Middle East's Mobile Market
Cellular market privatization in the Arab nations is helping stimulate the mobile market, according to a new report from the Arab Advisors Group. "Competition Levels in Arab Cellular Markets & Privatization Levels in Arab Cellular and Fixed ... [... more]
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Privatizing Social Security should scare you
The idea assumes anyone can invest successfully -- and threatens to destroy the safety net for which Social Security was originally created. Yet privatization is being spuriously packaged as 'reform.' If Mr. Market was easy to understand, we'd ... [... more]
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Bush's Market-Liberal Scam
President Bush began his second term with a big push for "Social Security privatization." I put the words in quotes to point out that neither his plan, nor any mainstream plan, is actual privatization. What he proposed was the gradual [... more]
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Bush-Style Privatization: More and More Problems
In a previous article, I argued that Bush's original proposal to reform Social Security-in which up to one-third of a worker's (and his employer's) "contributions" would be channeled into the stock market, but no one's current benefits would be [... more]
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The Privatization of Public Services
Fifty years ago, Detroit was the fourth largest city in the United States, with a population of 1.7 million people, and at $8,500 per year, one of the richest cities in terms of per capita income. It was 3.5 times the size of Indianapolis, the ... [... more]
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The Question of the Cable Monopoly
It is now common to hear about failures in privatization and deregulation, with even the New York blackout being blamed on too-little government (even though electric utilities are still heavily regulated). Of course, every reduction of ... [... more]
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The Financial Economics of Privatization
Author: William L. Megginson Binding: Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number: 338.927 EAN: 9780195150629 ISBN: 0195150627 Number Of Pages: 544 Publication Date: 2005-01-13 [... more]
$125.00
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Limits to Privatization: How to Avoid Too Much of a Good ...
Well supported, refreshing take on government involvement in business: Privatization was in vogue during the eighties and nineties. It aimed to eliminate, or at least reduce, corruption, inefficiency and the politicization of economic matters - and it [... more]
$48.95
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Privatization and Public-Private Partnerships
Pro-Privatization: I will begin by stating that I have a major problem with the book. Savas skews his own statistics in order to push readers into supporting the privatization of our nation's public sector. His book focuses entirely on the private sector' [... more]
$47.95
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To Serve and Protect: Privatization and Community in ...
A brilliant follow up to Benson's "The Enterprise of Law": What I love about this book is that it is a must read for both Liberals and Conservatives alike. Benson shows step by step why our monopolized "justice" system works against [... more]
$65.00
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