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.
Description: "In You Don't Always Get What You Pay For, Elliott D. Sclar offers a look at the pitfalls and promises of public sector privatization in the United States. By describing the underlying economic dynamics of how public agencies and private organizations actually work together, he provides an analysis of the assumptions behind the case for privatization."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 169-176) and index.
Table of contents: title: The urge to privatize: From the bureaucratic state to the contract state; title: What is the public buying? Identifying the contracted public good; title: Public vs. private production: Is one better and how would you know?; title: What's competition got to do with it? Market structures and public contracting; title: All in the system: Organizational theories and public contracting; title: Restructuring work: The relational contract; title: The privatization of public service: Economic limits of the contract state.