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Privatization and Deregulation: Needed Policy Reforms for Agribusiness Development

By Mohinder S. Mudahar (editor) and Surjit S. Sidhu (editor)

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9789048152216 | Springer Verlag, December 10, 2010, cover price $199.00 | also contains Privatization and Deregulation: Needed Policy Reforms for Agribusiness Development

9780880901215 | Intl Fertilizer Development, December 1, 1998, cover price $22.01

Privatize This?: Assessing the Opportunities and Costs of Privatization

Product Description: This book offers an expert examination of the ideology and motives behind the privatization or the nationalization of an industry, based on real case studies.â¢ Nine case studies of privatization in a variety of contexts: cigarette and alcohol sales, oil production, port facilities, public transportation, prison management, and lotteriesâ¢ Charts and figures for production and costs throughout each case studyâ¢ A bibliography for each case study, as well as a comprehensive bibliography for the entire bookâ¢ A comprehensive index of all topics, firms, policymakers, and important terminolog...read more

By Richard A. McGowan

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9780313375866 | 1 edition (Praeger Pub Text, March 3, 2011), cover price $49.00 | About this edition: This book offers an expert examination of the ideology and motives behind the privatization or the nationalization of an industry, based on real case studies.

Privatisation, Politics, and Economic Performance in Hungary

Product Description: Why do some privatizations apparently fail to produce the expected positive results? Economic theory tells us that privatization should improve efficiency, but this book suggests that political bargaining in the process of privatization works against the results we expect to achieve...read more

By Zoltan Antal-Mokos

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9780521142755 | Cambridge Univ Pr, June 30, 2010, cover price $44.99 | About this edition: Why do some privatizations apparently fail to produce the expected positive results?

Privatizing the Public University: Perspectives from Across the Academy

Product Description: With public colleges and universities facing substantial budget cuts and increased calls for accountability, more institutions now rely on private revenue streams for support. As market-driven policies and behaviors become more commonplace, some cautious critics sound the alarm, while others watching the bottom line cheer...read more

By Peter D. Eckel (editor)

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9780801891649 | 1 edition (Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, May 11, 2009), cover price $47.00 | About this edition: With public colleges and universities facing substantial budget cuts and increased calls for accountability, more institutions now rely on private revenue streams for support.

Prison Profiteers: Who Makes Money from Mass Incarceration

A critical analysis of the business side of imprisonment in America reveals how private prison companies, investment banks, churches, and other groups benefit from mass imprisonment, in a collection of essays that traces the allocation of tax funds throughout the prison system.

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9781595581679 | New Pr, January 1, 2008, cover price $26.95 | About this edition: A critical analysis of the business side of imprisonment in America reveals how private prison companies, investment banks, churches, and other groups benefit from mass imprisonment, in a collection of essays that traces the allocation of tax funds throughout the prison system.

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9781595584540 | Reprint edition (New Pr, May 5, 2009), cover price $19.95

Government by Contract: Outsourcing and American Democracy

Product Description: The dramatic growth of government over the course of the twentieth century since the New Deal prompts concern among libertarians and conservatives and also among those who worry about government’s costs, efficiency, and quality of service...read more

By Martha Minow (editor)

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9780674032088 | Harvard Univ Pr, February 28, 2009, cover price $62.50 | About this edition: The dramatic growth of government over the course of the twentieth century since the New Deal prompts concern among libertarians and conservatives and also among those who worry about government’s costs, efficiency, and quality of service.

Privatizing Pensions: The Transnational Campaign for Social Security Reform

Product Description: To what extent do international organizations, global policy networks, and transnational policy entrepreneurs influence domestic policy makers? Have we entered a new phase of globalization that, unbeknownst to most citizens, shapes policies that used to be the sole domain of domestic politics? Privatizing Pensions reveals how international institutions--such as the World Bank, USAID, and other transnational policy actors--have played a seminal role in the development, diffusion, and implementation of new pension reforms that are transforming the postwar social contract in more than thirty countries worldwide, including the United States...read more

By Mitchell A. Orenstein

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9780691132884 | Princeton Univ Pr, August 11, 2008, cover price $55.00 | About this edition: To what extent do international organizations, global policy networks, and transnational policy entrepreneurs influence domestic policy makers?

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9780691136974 | Princeton Univ Pr, August 11, 2008, cover price $30.95 | About this edition: To what extent do international organizations, global policy networks, and transnational policy entrepreneurs influence domestic policy makers?

Privatization: Successes and Failures

Product Description: The privatization of large state-owned enterprises is one of the most radical policy developments of the last quarter century. Right-wing governments have privatized in an effort to decrease the size of government, while left-wing governments have privatized either to compensate for the failures of state-owned firms or to generate revenues...read more

By Gerard Roland (editor) and Joseph E. Stiglitz (foreword by)

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9780231141604 | Columbia Univ Pr, July 15, 2008, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: The privatization of large state-owned enterprises is one of the most radical policy developments of the last quarter century.

Privatisation: Property and the Remaking of Nature-society Relations

Product Description: Contemporary privatization remakes nature-society as property and transforms peopleâs relationships to themselves, each other, and the natural world. This groundbreaking collection provides the first systematic analysis of neo-liberal privatization...read more

By Becky Mansfield (editor)

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9781405175500 | Blackwell Pub, May 2, 2008, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: Contemporary privatization remakes nature-society as property and transforms peopleâs relationships to themselves, each other, and the natural world.

War on Terror, Inc.: Corporate Profiteering from the Politics of Fear

A critical assessment of the practices of commercial military suppliers who have profited from the War on Terror evaluates the relationships between political decision-makers and wartime commercial ventures, the wartime contributions of private contractors, and the moral issues associated with wartime profit making.

By Solomon Hughes

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9781844671236 | Verso Books, February 28, 2008, cover price $26.95 | About this edition: A critical assessment of the practices of commercial military suppliers who have profited from the War on Terror evaluates the relationships between political decision-makers and wartime commercial ventures, the wartime contributions of private contractors, and the moral issues associated with wartime profit making.

Privatization: The Provision of Public Services by the Private Sector

The 31 articles articles in this book discuss the pros and cons of privatization of public services. Examined are the need for alternative service delivery; the process of privatization; concrete examples of privatizing services generic to local governments; precautions; and the future of privatization.

By Roger L. Kemp (editor)

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9780899506197 | McFarland & Co Inc Pub, October 1, 1991, cover price $47.50 | About this edition: The 31 articles articles in this book discuss the pros and cons of privatization of public services.

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9780786432509 | McFarland & Co Inc Pub, September 17, 2007, cover price $39.95

Footing the Tuition Bill: The New Student Loan Sector

Product Description: A college degree is the key to opportunity and economic success in America today, a fact that has brought new attention to questions of college access and affordability. Footing the Tuition Bill explores fundamental questions about the purposes of federal student loans, how well traditional arrangements work, and how innovations might offer guidance for rethinking the design of financial aid...read more

By Frederick M. Hess (editor)

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9780844742533 | Aei Pr, May 1, 2007, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: A college degree is the key to opportunity and economic success in America today, a fact that has brought new attention to questions of college access and affordability.

Betraying Our Troops: The Destructive Results of Privatizing War

Product Description: In this shocking exposÃ©, two government fraud experts reveal how private contractors have put the lives of countless American soldiers on the line while damaging our strategic interests and our image abroad. From the shameful war profiteering of companies like Halliburton/KBR to the sinister influence that corporate lobbyists have on American foreign policy, Dina Rasor and Robert H...read more

By Jonathan Alter (foreword by)

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9780230604087 | Reprint edition (Griffin, April 29, 2008), cover price $21.99 | About this edition: In this shocking exposÃ©, two government fraud experts reveal how private contractors have put the lives of countless American soldiers on the line while damaging our strategic interests and our image abroad.

Miscellaneous:

9780230610828 | 1 edition (Palgrave Macmillan, May 1, 2007), cover price $9.99

Privatizing China: Inside China's Stock Markets

By Fraser J. T. Howie and Carl E. Walter

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9780470822142 | 2 edition (John Wiley & Sons Inc, October 13, 2006), cover price $65.00

Crash Course: A Radical Plan for Improving Public Education

The founder of Edison Schools and Channel One describes the sobering challenges that are preventing a large percentage of today's young people from acquiring a quality public education, in an account that makes recommendations on how to institute effective improvements. Reprint.

By Chris Whittle

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9781594482199 | Reprint edition (Riverhead Books, August 29, 2006), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: The founder of Edison Schools and Channel One describes the sobering challenges that are preventing a large percentage of today's young people from acquiring a quality public education, in an account that makes recommendations on how to institute effective improvements.

Working With Non-governmental And Other Civil Society Organisations to Promote Development: Hc 1311, Session 2005-06: Report by the Comptroller And Auditor General

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9780102939156 | The Stationery Office/Tso, July 30, 2006, cover price $24.50

Private Sector Development: House of Commons Papers 921-i 2005-06, Fourth Report of Session 2005-06: Vol.1 Report Together With Formal Minutes

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9780215030160 | The Stationery Office/Tso, July 1, 2006, cover price $35.50

The True Genius of America at Risk: Are We Losing Our Public Universities to De Facto Privatization?

Product Description: A perfect storm of fiscal and political trends is rapidly forcing the privatization of America's public universities. Unless those who care about preserving these valuable public assets redefine the core purposes of public higher education, college will quickly become a very difficult goal for lower-income citizens to achieve, and the economic future of America will suffer as a consequence...read more

By Katharine C. Lyall and Kathleen R. Sell

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9780275989491 | Praeger Pub Text, December 30, 2005, cover price $52.00 | About this edition: A perfect storm of fiscal and political trends is rapidly forcing the privatization of America's public universities.

Crash Course: Imagining a Better Future for Public Education

By Chris Whittle

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9781594489020 | Riverhead Books, September 8, 2005, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: The founder of Edison Schools and Channel One describes the sobering challenges that are preventing a large percentage of today's young people from acquiring a quality public education, in an account that makes recommendations on how to institute effective improvements.

Just Get Out of the Way: How Government Can Help Business in Poor Countries

Product Description: Economic growth is the only way out of poverty, and the private sector is best at generating that growth.

By Robert E. Anderson

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9781930865549 | Cato Inst, February 1, 2004, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Economic growth is the only way out of poverty, and the private sector is best at generating that growth.

Putting Auction Theory to Work

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By Paul R. Milgrom

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9780521551847 | Cambridge Univ Pr, January 12, 2004, cover price $135.00

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9780521536721 | Cambridge Univ Pr, January 1, 2004, cover price $49.99

Privatizing China: The Stock Markets and Their Role in Corporate Reform

Product Description: Much is written about the various efforts aimed at reforming Chinaâs state-owned enterprises. But in all this literature the Chinese governmentâs determined effort to use the equity capital markets as a tool of enterprise reform has been virtually ignored...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Fraser J. T. Howie and Carl E. Walter

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9780470821206 | John Wiley & Sons Inc, August 1, 2003, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: Much is written about the various efforts aimed at reforming Chinaâs state-owned enterprises.

Privatization and Deregulation in the Gulf Energy Sector

Product Description: Leading industry specialists and scholars here assess the principal issues associated with the privatization and deregulation of the energy sector. Topics explored include oil production and refining, gas and electricity production, and their transmission and distribution...read more

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9781860644108 | Tauris Academic Studies, February 15, 1999, cover price $115.00 | About this edition: Privatization of industries within the energy sector has been spreading globally since its small and uncertain beginnings in Britain in the early 1980s.

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9781860644115 | Tauris Academic Studies, February 22, 2003, cover price $110.00 | About this edition: Leading industry specialists and scholars here assess the principal issues associated with the privatization and deregulation of the energy sector.

Issues in Privatizing Social Security: Report of an Expert Panel of the National Academy of Social Insurance

Product Description: Two types of changes to Social Security have been proposed. One would keep the current defined-benefit structure but build and maintain a larger trust fund, to be partially invested in stocks and corporate bonds. The other would set up individual funded accounts, also to be partially invested in private markets...read more

By Peter A. Diamond (editor)

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9780262041775 | Mit Pr, June 25, 1999, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Two types of changes to Social Security have been proposed.

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9780262517102 | Mit Pr, January 1, 2003, cover price $18.00 | About this edition: Two types of changes to Social Security have been proposed.

Off the Rails: The Crisis on Britain's Railways

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By Andrew Murray

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9781859844960, titled "Off the Rails: The Crisis on Britain's Railways" | Verso Books, November 1, 2002, cover price $13.00

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