company ‘s stock, privatizing a publicly traded stock, and often described as private equity . The second is a demutualization of a mutual organization or cooperative to form a joint stock company . http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privatization http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/issues/issues18/index.htm http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/22/opinion/krugman-prisons-privatization-patronage.html http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303734204577468513760329818.html?mod=googlenews_wsj http://www.downsizinggovernment.org/privatization http://cup.columbia.edu/book/978-0-231-14160-4/privatization http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privatization_in_Iran Posted in Privatization-General Tagged Central Europe , Eastern Europe , Nazi