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Privatize This? : Assessing the Opportunities and Costs of Privatization.
From 2000 to 2008, the Bush Administration championed privatization like no other before it, awarding hundreds of billions of dollars in contracts to outsource services and pushing for greater-than-ever privatizing of our schools, the retirement system, even the war in Iraq. But privatization contin...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Santa Barbara :
ABC-CLIO,
2011.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | From 2000 to 2008, the Bush Administration championed privatization like no other before it, awarding hundreds of billions of dollars in contracts to outsource services and pushing for greater-than-ever privatizing of our schools, the retirement system, even the war in Iraq. But privatization continues to be a controversial concept, and is as synonymous with waste, cronyism, and fraud as it is with efficiency and competition. |
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| Notas: | Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Part One Introduction; Chapter 1 A Brief History of the Nationalization versus Privatization Debate; Chapter 2 Evaluating the Privatization Process: Making Sure the "Game" Is Fair; Part Two International Examples; Chapter 3 Privatizing Sin: The 21st-Century Cigarette Industry; Chapter 4 Privatize or Nationalize? Argentina's Privatization of Its Oil Industry; Chapter 5 The Never-Ending Cycle of Privatization and Nationalization: Venezuela's Oil Industry. |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (220 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9780313375873 0313375879 |