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Author
Series
Publisher
Berrett-Koehler
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Privatization is one of the most important political and economic developments of our time, affecting virtually every person and state in the world. The purpose of The Fox in the Henhouse is to present, in clear, direct terms, an analysis of privatization that helps readers understand what is happening to them and what they can do about it. It gives people on all sides of many different privatization struggles-- over hospitals, schools, sanitation,...
Author
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
"In 1980, Ronald Reagan was elected President of the United States on the promise of radically reforming American government by cutting spending and welfare entitlements and improving conditions for private entrepreneurship. For Reagan, American government was akin to an alligator infested swamp, not only stagnant but dangerous. Thousands of miles away, the Swedish Prime Minister, Olof Palme, in response to a local government's attempt to privatize...
12) Local governments' fiscal balance, privatization, and banking sector reform in transition countries
Author
Series
IMF working paper volume 12/146
Publisher
International Monetary Fund
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
15) Reign of error: the hoax of the privatization movement and the danger to America's public schools
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"From the former U.S. Assistant Secretary of Education, "whistleblower extraordinaire" (The Wall Street Journal), one of the foremost authorities on education and the history of education in the United States, author of the best-selling The Death and Life of the Great American School System; The Language Police ("Impassioned . . . Fiercely argued . . . Every bit as alarming as it is illuminating" --The New York Times); and the now-classic Great School...
19) Private entrepreneurs in China and Vietnam: social and political functioning of strategic groups
Author
Series
China studies volume 4
Publisher
Brill
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English