Privatize this? assessing the opportunities and costs of privatization
Is it always more effective and less expensive to use taxpayer dollars to engage private companies rather than have the government run enterprises itself? Do consumers always benefit from the privatization of services? What happens when privatization stops being an abstract theoretical debate and is...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Sant Barbara, Calif. :
Praeger
c2011.
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| Colección: | EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
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| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b31215361*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction
- A brief history of the privatization versus nationalization debate
- An arena model for the privatization question
- International examples
- Privatizing Sin : the 21st-century cigarette industry
- Privatize or nationalize? : Argentina's privatization of its oil industry
- The never-ending cycle of privatization : Venezuela's oil industry
- A public good or inefficiency : port facilities in the United States and Canada
- State-operated industries that were once private enterprises
- State-controlled liquor stores I: Pennsylvania
- State-controlled liquor stores II: New Hampshire
- Public transportation regional authorities : should the Boston, Philadelphia, and New York City systems be privatized?
- Proposed and newly privatized industries
- The evolution and scope of the privatized prison industry
- Privatizing a lottery : the case of Illinois
- Conclusion
- General motors and the government bailout : the hybrid privatization.
