You don't always get what you pay for
Subtitle: the economics of privatization
By: Elliott D. Sclar.
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Ithaca
Language: eng
Number of pages: 184
Subjects: Privatization -- United States.; Privatization -- United States -- Case studies.
Genres: Case studies.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 169-176) and index.
Table of contents: value: The urge to privatize: From the bureaucratic state to the contract state; value: What is the public buying? Identifying the contracted public good; value: Public vs. private production: Is one better and how would you know?; value: What's competition got to do with it? Market structures and public contracting; value: All in the system: Organizational theories and public contracting; value: Restructuring work: The relational contract; value: The privatization of public service: Economic limits of the contract state.