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. Is it always more effective and less expensive to use taxpayer dollars to engage private companies rather than have the government run enterprises itself? Do consumers always benefit from the privatization of services? What happens when privatization stops being an abstract, theoretical debate and is actually put to the test in the real world? Privatize This? ...
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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. Is it always more effective and less expensive to use taxpayer dollars to engage private companies rather than have the government run enterprises itself? Do consumers always benefit from the privatization of services? What happens when privatization stops being an abstract, theoretical debate and is actually put to the test in the real world? Privatize This? Assessing the Opportunities and Costs of Privatization is the place to find out. Privatize This? provides a clear, easy-to-apply model for evaluating the pros and cons of the privatization process and then puts the model to work in examining nine real-world case studies--ranging from Spain's privatization of its cigarette industry to Pennsylvania's "state store system" for selling liquor. Throughout, the book focuses on the central issues of privatization--profit versus public good, protection from fraud and waste--while also showing how the recent economic upheaval has changed public opinion and public policy on privatization. Nine case studies of privatization in a variety of contexts: cigarette and alcohol sales, oil production, port facilities, public transportation, prison management, and lotteries Charts and figures for production and costs throughout each case study A bibliography for each case study, as well as a comprehensive bibliography for the entire book A comprehensive index of all topics, firms, policymakers, and important terminology
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Very good in very good dust jacket. Ex-library. x, 206 p.; 25 cm. LCCN 2010049765 Type of material Book Personal name McGowan, Richard, 1952-Main title Privatize this? : assessing the opportunities and costs of privatization / Richard A. McGowan. Published/Created Sant Barbara, Calif. : Praeger, c2011. Description x, 206 p.; 25 cm. ISBN 9780313375866 (hard copy: alk. paper) 9780313375873 (ebook) LC classification HD3850. M34 2011 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. LC Subjects Privatization--Case studies. Notes Includes bibliographical references and index. Dewey class no. 338.9/25
