Title: Privatize this? : assessing the opportunities and costs of privatization /
Authors: McGowan, Richard, 1952-
Publisher: Praeger,
Year: 2011
Subjects: Privatization Case studies.
Abstract: 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. --
Contents: 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.