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Title: You Don't Always Get What You Pay for: The Economics of Privatization by Elliott D. Sclar, Richard C. Leone ISBN: 0-8014-8762-5 Publisher: Cornell Univ Pr Pub. Date: December, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.6 (5 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Excellently written critique of privatization
Comment: This is an excellently-written critique of privatization. In case after case, Sclar reveals that all is not as it might seem, and that beneath the apparition of improved efficiency lies a different reality supporters of privatization might not want revealed.
The book does not tell the whole story. Sclar has long been a critic of privatization, and he frankly doesn't highlight the successes of privatization -- and these certainly do exist. I don't really think there is a case to be made specifically "for privatization" or "anti-privatization," but a requirement for more balanced analysis, which has not been present in the output of privatization advocates. There is also a need to examine ways that the public sector can be made more efficient without necessarily bringing in a privatization approach.
Sclar provides a valuable service in laying out a series of critical paths in an uncommonly well-written text, and prompts readers to ask the difficult questions. Well worth reading. If you are specifically interested in public transportation, also take a look at my new book -- The Private Provision of Public Transport -- available through Amazon.
Rating: 5
Summary: An Island of Wisdom in a Sea of Disinformation
Comment: Neck-deep in ideologically driven rhetoric about how privatization is as American as motherhood and apple pie and must be good for you? Frustrated at knowing there's more to this but you would need an un-bought economist to help you understand the real story? Help is here. Buy this book. Read, mark, learn, inwardly digest. . . . Sclar is going to have an impact on this debate. His parsing of the issues is a great start and, what's best, this book is going to stimulate more like it. This is the beginning of the skeptical and critical assay of the issues. Go for it. You too can now begin to build your own informed voice to start the shaping of a balanced dialogue. (By the way, the point is well made that improvement of public sector services, not just resistance to privatization initiatives, is the course we must set.)
Rating: 4
Summary: Thoughtful and complete
Comment: This is a well rounded review of the privatization of government. It provides a good backdrop for the analysis of alternative privatization schemes, while using anectodes to make the point.
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Title: America the Unusual by John W. Kingdon ISBN: 0312189710 Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing Pub. Date: 15 August, 1998 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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Title: The Transformation of Governance: Public Administration for Twenty-First Century America by Donald F. Kettl ISBN: 0801870496 Publisher: Johns Hopkins Univ Pr Pub. Date: October, 2002 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: Democracy and the Global Order: From the Modern State to Cosmopolitan Governance by David Held ISBN: 0804726876 Publisher: Stanford Univ Pr Pub. Date: February, 1996 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Comparative Politics: A Theoretical Framework (3rd Edition) by Gabriel Almond, Bing Powell, Kaare Strøm, Russell J. Dalton ISBN: 0321084535 Publisher: Pearson Longman Pub. Date: 13 November, 2000 List Price(USD): $42.00 |
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Title: Contesting Global Governance : Multilateral Economic Institutions and Global Social Movements by Robert O'Brien, Anne Marie Goetz, Jan Aart Scholte, Marc Williams ISBN: 0521774403 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 20 April, 2000 List Price(USD): $23.00 |
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