Author: Joseph Murphy::Scott W. Gilmer::Richard Weise::Ann Page
Publisher: Ablex Publishing
Dewey Decimal Number: 379.320973
Publication Date: 1998-05-08
Reading Level: 244
Description: For a variety of reasons market-oriented improvement efforts are becoming increasingly visible on the educational reform landscape. In particular, privatization strategies, such as vouchers and contracting out, are receiving considerable attention at all levels of educational governance and administration. Our objective in this volume is to help the educational community develop a deeper understanding of the privatization movement in general and the major pathways to privatization in particular.
Description: This collection on the privatization of property ownership seeks to explore the middle ground between state socialism and corporate capitalism. The text examines the transition to market economies in post-communist Eastern Europe and considers Western experiences with alternative forms of ownership. Several essays focus on the impediments to the transition to market economies in Poland, Hungary and Germany. Others consider the problems of active participation, self-governance and domination involved in some forms of private ownership. The editors propose a new conception of property, and the possibility of a "fourth way" that mediates between classical liberalism and state socialism. They discuss new modes of ownership in the context of housing, industrial property and other areas of social life which avoid the unfortunate connotations associated in the past with the notion of a "third way".
Description: Anyone engaged in the rapidly emerging marketing of energy as a commodity will benefit from Energy Marketing Handbook. In this comprehensive volume filled with the latest in energy marketing information, energy-specialist Denise Warkentin details the open markets, wholesale and retail wheeling, the alignment of the electric power industry, and offers ways to manage risk in the market. An extensive reference section defines the special terms related to energy as a commodity and lists acronyms and trade groups involved. Readers will learn: What energy marketing is and how it differs from both power marketing and brokering How the past has shaped the current path of the electric power and natural gas industries How electricity deregulation will effect natural gas What the Federal Energy Regulatory Commision's recent adoption of Ferc Orders 888 and 889 means for the industry How alliances and marketing relationships have emerged within the electric utility industry and in the natural gas industry How to manange and control risk in a competitive atmosphere As Editor of Energy Marketing and News Editor for Electric Light & Power, Denise Warkentin deals with the complex issues of energy marketing on a daily basis. Based on her research, she teaches informative and non-technical public seminars on such topics as utility financial condition and profitability, energy marketing and reengineering and downsizing. Warkentin holds a BA in journalism from the University of Oklahoma and has been writing on business, regulatory, legal and environmental issues for 13 years and on electric power and natural gas markets for five years.
Description: This book provides the first systematic empirical analysis of privatization processes worldwide to explain how and why governments privatize. Privatization is shown to be a difficult process, shaped by political preferences and budgetary constraints, often pursued in the absence of suitable economics and legal institutions. As a result, in most cases, the process has been partial and incomplete, so that private ownership tends to coexist with public control.
