books about: privatization     books:       Privatizing China: Socialism from Afar Cornell University Press, 2008 Nancy N. Chen, University of California at Santa Cruz Lisa M. Hoffman, University of Washington, Tacoma You-tien Hsing, University of California, Berkeley Matthew Kohrman, Stanford University Bei Li, University of California, Davis Ralph A. Litzinger, Duke University Pun Ngai, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Aihwa Ong, University of California, Berkeley Benjamin L. Read, University of Iowa Louisa Schein, Rutgers ...             The Commanding Heights : The Battle for the World Economy47 reviews Daniel Yergin, Joseph Stanislaw Free Press, 2002 Landmark Book on Globalization and Economic & Trade Policy If you want to understand globalization, this book is required reading. This book provides a full overview and history of 20th century globalization. It discusses the economic choices that third-world countries were making in order to become integrated into the first and second-world international trade system. It discusses the international financial institutions, the newly industrializing ...             Public-Private Policy Partnerships Pauline Marie Rosenau The MIT Press, 2000 Partnerships between the public and private sectors to fulfill public functions are on the increase at every level of government. In the United States and Canada they currently operate in most policy areas, and in the U.S. trial programs are planned by the Internal Revenue Service, the Census Bureau, and the Social Security Administration. Partnerships represent the second generation of efforts to bring competitive market discipline to bear ...             Capitalism 3.0: A Guide to Reclaiming the Commons (Bk Currents)14 reviews Peter Barnes Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2006 Broadening the Ownership of Capital "Capitalism 2.0" names the problem that needs solving: our economic system that relies on increasing consumption. It is destroying nature, widening the gap between the few very rich and the many very poor, and failing to increase our happiness. Peter shows that the solution will not come from government, because it is controlled by the persons causing the problem. Corporate shareowners are ...             Putting Auction Theory to Work (Churchill Lectures in Economics)1 review Paul Milgrom Cambridge University Press, 2004 Great book! Must Read if you are in the auction space. This is a great book about auction theory. I read it among many others as I was doing researches for our upcoming online auction site. It is clearly a bible for the auction professional as well as a very practical tool to understand existing and diverse mechanisms.             The War Against America's Public Schools: Privatizing Schools, Commercializing Education5 reviews Gerald W. Bracey Allyn & Bacon, 2001 A Must-Read for People Who Care About Public Education Three cheers for Gerald Bracey. The eminent researcher for Phi Delta Kappan has done it again. Bracey has strong opinions about public education, and he documents every one of them with facts and figures. At the same time, he exposes the ulterior motives and agendas of public education's strongest critics. Best of all, Bracey writes in English, providing an enjoyable read on an important topic. ...             Thirst: Fighting the Corporate Theft of Our Water4 reviews Alan Snitow, Deborah Kaufman, ... Jossey-Bass, 2007 Our Most Precious Resource This is an easy to read but alarming account of the privitization of public water in eight communities across the United States. It is a book that should be read and understood in our nation's high schools and colleges. THIRST Fighting The Corporate THEFT Of Our Water is an interesting and entertaining read while also providing reasonable and ample documents and records to support the ...             Water Wars: Privatization, Pollution, and Profit13 reviews Vandana Shiva South End Press, 2002 The Single Most Important Book You Can Read Today the global water crisis is the biggest issue we will face in our lifetimes and not much is being done. This book puts things in a human light and makes solutions seem possible. Stop Bottled Water Industries Protect Global Commons [...]             The Divided Welfare State: The Battle over Public and Private Social Benefits in the United States2 reviews Jacob S. Hacker Cambridge University Press, 2002 Informative, Engaging, and Timely! At a time of renewed debate over Medicare and Social Security, this is an important and insightful look at the origins and effects of America¡¯s distinctive public-private system of social welfare. Hacker¡¯s main point is that the American ¡°welfare regime¡± (he prefers this formulation to the common term, ¡°welfare state¡±) is a lot larger than most people think because, unlike most European ...             Prison Profiteers: Who Makes Money from Mass Incarceration2 reviews New Press, 2008 Excellent and Important In his 2005 article "Correctional HMOs and the Coming Prison Plague," author Will S. Hylton writes, "It occurs to me now that prisons are designed for keeping secrets, for holding inside not just men [and women] but also their lives and the details of those lives." In Prison Profiteers, Tara Herivel and Paul Wright chronicle hundreds of instances where prisons not only kept their secrets ...             How Capitalism Was Built: The Transformation of Central and Eastern Europe, Russia, and Central Asia1 review Anders Aslund Cambridge University Press, 2007 huge social changes In the 15 or so years after the end of the Cold War, vast economic changes rippled through the Warsaw Pact countries. Aslund chronicles the sometimes unsteady transition from centrally planned economies to market based approaches. Much had to be done. Privatisation was fundamentally different from what happened under that label in the existing capitalist countries. The latter always had strong ...             You Don't Always Get What You Pay for: The Economics of Privatization (Century Foundation Books (Cornell ...5 reviews Elliott D. Sclar Cornell University Press, 2001 An Island of Wisdom in a Sea of Disinformation Neck-deep in ideologically driven rhetoric about how privatization is as American as motherhood and apple pie and must be good for you? Frustrated at knowing there's more to this but you would need an un-bought economist to help you understand the real story? Help is here. Buy this book. Read, mark, learn, inwardly digest. . . . Sclar is going to have an impact on this debate. His ...             The Enterprise of Law: Justice Without the State7 reviews Bruce L. Benson Pacific Research Institute, 1990 Law without the State Do we need the State to produce law? There are libertarians aplenty who believe we do. Some of them have actually thought carefully about the issue, and some of them are merely Objectivists who have accepted Ayn Rand's oracular dismissal of anarchocapitalism in her (thoroughly statist) essay on "The Nature of Government." Both of these groups will benefit from a reading of Bruce Benson's fine ...             Outsourcing Sovereignty: Why Privatization of Government Functions Threatens Democracy and What We Can Do ...2 reviews Paul R. Verkuil Cambridge University Press, 2007 Excellent demolition of the case for privatisation In this fascinating book, Paul Verkuil, Professor of Law at Cardozo Law School, Yeshiva University, examines the USA's shift from public government to private governance. Outsourcing rose by 86% between 2000 and 2005 and the value of non-competitive contracts rose by 115%, mainly due to the war on Iraq. He examines the public/private distinction, constitutional governance, the limits of ...             America's Prisons: The Movement Toward Profit and Privatization1 review Curtis, R. Blakely Brown Walker Press, 2005 Blakely's Book - Right on Target I have recently read Blakely's America's Prisons: The Movement Toward Profit and Privatization. As a supplemental reader, instructors will find it useful in a number of courses. Perhaps the most interesting characteristic of this book is its approach to prisoner commodification and Blakely's contention that a number of traditional socially-productive objectives of the prison are being replaced ...             Contesting the Commons: Privatizing Pastoral Lands in Kenya Carolyn K. Lesorogol University of Michigan Press, 2008 Over centuries, African pastoralist societies have crafted institutions that enable them to survive in their harsh, semi-arid environment. Effectively managing communally held land has been one key to their success and a cornerstone of their social organization. Over the last two decades, however, a number of pastoralist communities have sought to transform their land tenure systems from communal to private ownership. In Contesting the Commons ...             Privatization: Successes and Failures (Initiative for Policy Dialogue at Columbia: Challenges in Development ... Columbia University Press, 2008 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. In this way, privatization has spread from Europe to Latin America, from Asia to Africa, reaching its ...             Social Security: History and Politics from the New Deal to the Privatization Debate (Studies in Government ...3 reviews Daniel Beland University Press of Kansas, 2007 The big, "new deal" about Social Security I bought this book to read for the 70th anniversary of Social Security (Aug. 14), but it came out earlier than expected. It's good to read a social science book that's not full of jargon or boring policy details. The author gets to the point, and he writes clearly--for an academic. The book is really concise, as it covers nearly eight decades of history in less than 200 pages (w/o the notes). It ...             Brave New Neighborhoods: The Privatization of Public Space Margaret Kohn Routledge, 2004 Fighting for First Amendment rights is as popular a pastime as ever, but just because you can get on your soapbox doesn't mean anyone will be there to listen. Town squares have emptied out as shoppers decamp for megamalls; gated communities keep pesky signature gathering activists away; even most internet chatrooms are run by the major media companies. Brave New Neighborhood s considers what can be done to protect and revitalize our public ...             ¡Cochabamba! Water War in Bolivia4 reviews Oscar Olivera South End Press, 2004 Inspiration for our times Tired of feeling helpless in the face of the institutions that try to dominate and control our lives? Reading Cochabamba! by Oscar Olivera may be just the tonic you've been looking for. When Bechtel--currently (re)constructing Iraq and the vastly over-budget Big Dig--tried to privatize the water supply in Cochabamba, Bolivia the people said No! And they meant it. Ordinary working people ...              search for books capitalism, challenges, cochabamba, commanding, commercializing, contesting, corporate, development, education, enterprise, foundation, functions, globalization, government, incarceration, initiative, neighborhoods, outsourcing, partnerships, pollution, privatization, privatizing, profiteers, public-private, reclaiming, socialism, sovereignty, successes, threatens, transformation books:    Kindle - Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device This is the future of book reading. 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