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Price: $65.00
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Sale: $35.00
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Manufacturer: Westview Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Graeme Hodge
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Publisher: Westview Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 338.9
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Publication Date: 1999-12-30
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Reading Level: 320
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Description: Contracting out public sector services and divesting public enterprises are reforms that have enjoyed widespread global popularity in recent years. Better services, lower prices and greater accountability are the promises made by politicians, senior executives, and investment companies when functions are moved from the public sector to private enterprise. But in Privatization, Graeme A. Hodge challenges these assumptions. Through an examination of hundreds of international studies on the performance of privatization activities, Hodge demonstrates that privatizing public services is often not the guaranteed panacea portrayed by its political supporters. Importantly, privatization activities can lead to modest gains, but there are also winners and losers in this reform. It therefore deserves far more care and balanced debate than it usually attracts.
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Price: $79.00
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Sale: $128.23
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Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
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Dewey Decimal Number: 338.941
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Publication Date: 1995-03-23
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Reading Level: 472
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Description: The last decade has witnessed the introduction of an elaborate system of regulation in the UK. Whole segments of British industry are now operating under the supervision of regulatory bodies not dissimilar to the government departments they were designed to replace. Regulation has been an inevitable part of the structural changes in the 1980s, notably the privatization programme and changes in the financial services industries. This book assesses these developments across a number of sectors (utilities, telecommunications, financial services, health, and higher education) and offers a range of perspectives for understanding the various objectives, mechanisms, and institutions involved. The book offers important insights into the way in which the structure of privatized industries interact with the form of regulation. It has significant implications for countries that are embarking on the process of privatization, regulation, and deregulation of their industries. Contributors: Mark Armstrong, William Baumol, Michael Beesley, Martin Cave, Evan Davis, Ruth Dodsworth, Simon Domberger, Stephanie Flanders, Peter Grindley, Paul Grout, Norman Ireland, Bruce Laidlaw, Alan Maynard, John McEldowney, Francis McGowan, Ray Rees, Laura Rovizzi, Paul Seabright, Avrom Sharr, David Thompson, John Vickers, Thomas Weyman-Jones, Ann Whitfield, Peter Williamson
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Price: $34.95
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Sale: $26.56
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Manufacturer: American Enterprise Institute Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Clark C. Havighurst
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Publisher: American Enterprise Institute Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 344.73022
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Publication Date: 1995-04
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Reading Level: 341
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Description: This book provides a point of view on the debate about health care delivery in the U.S., particularly in light of the debate surrounding the Patient Protection Act.
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Price: $30.00
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Sale: $30.00
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Manufacturer: Organization for Economic
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Economic Research Centre
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Publisher: Organization for Economic
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Dewey Decimal Number: 385.1
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Publication Date: 1993-12
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Reading Level: 162
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Description: Many countries are launching privatization programs with a view to reducing the operating deficits of the railways, notably by making them more competitive. However, at a time of high-speed trains, traffic congestion, and concern over the environment, not everyone agrees on the merits of privatization. This Round Table clarifies the issues, analyzes a number of examples, and identifies the potential obstacles to privatization. It shows the difficulties inherent in such projects, and the scope for implementing them.
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Price: $49.95
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Sale: $49.95
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Manufacturer: Brookings Institution Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Carol Graham
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Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 338.90091724
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Publication Date: 1998-06
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Reading Level: 380
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Description: This book studies the effects of incorporating market incentives into the public goods arena. Carol Graham examines the effects of market-based strategies on the performance of public institutions, the political sustainability of market reforms, and equity. In so doing, she examines a variety of reform experiences in the realms of education, health, social security, and state-owned enterprises and across a range of country and income contexts, with case studies drawn from Latin America, Africa, and Eastern Europe. The studies show that the incorporation of new market incentives, such as vouchers in education and private social security systems, can have positive effects on the performance of public institutions. The effects on equity are less clear, however, and in many cases efficiency gains entail short-term equity losses. The poorest sectors are usually least equipped to take advantage of new incentives and may be marginalized from the reforms and lose access to essential services. Yet in the long-term, negative equity effects are usually counter-balanced by the benefits of enhancing the performance of public institutions. As this book makes clear, the issues explored have relevance for advanced industrial societies as well as for developing economies.
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Manufacturer: Anglo-German Foundation for the Study of Industrial Society
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Carmen Hass-Klau
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Publisher: Anglo-German Foundation for the Study of Industrial Society
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Publication Date: 1998-06
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Reading Level: 103
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Price: $7.00
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Sale: $6.99
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Manufacturer: Amer Society of Civil Engineers
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Binding: Paperback
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Publisher: Amer Society of Civil Engineers
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Dewey Decimal Number: 363.072073
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Publication Date: 1993-12
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Reading Level: 76
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Description: This report, "Federal Public Works Infrastructure R&D: A New Perspective" (Report No. 93-EF1003), provides an analysis of the federal role in public works infrastructure research and development; it is one of a series of special studies commissioned by the U.S. Corps of Engineers under a Congressional directive. In performing this analysis, the Civil Engineering Research Foundation (CERF) contacted more than a dozen federal agencies and coordinated with the Federal Laboratory Consortium (FLC) to obtain data from 257 of the federal laboratories. The objective of the analysis was to establish baseline information regarding the federal government's role in public works infrastructure research and development (PWI R&D). What, where, and how PWI R&D is accomplished by the federal government is the focus of this analysis. After providing background information and defining "public works infrastructure," the report provides an overview of responses collected from a variety of government agencies concerning their perceived role in PWI R&D. As part of the effort to determine whether federal PWI R&D meets national public works infrastructure needs, a typical federal R&D program life-cycle is synopsized to include an explanation of the role of contributing organizatins. Next, the report quantifies the federal role in public works infrastructure R&D. The components of this quantification include estimates of federal funding PWI R&D, where such R&D is accomplished, the types of R&D performed, and technical transfer mechanisms. Funding trends for the various infrastructure components are also addressed. Findings are documented in both tabular and graphic form. Finally, to place federal PWI R&D into a worldwide perspective, the report compares the United State's PWI R&D investment with other industrially advanced nations.
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Price: $95.00
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Sale: $95.00
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Manufacturer: Gale Group
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Charity Anne Dorgan
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Publisher: Gale Group
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Publication Date: 1992-05
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Reading Level: 2000
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Price: $9.95
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Sale: $9.00
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Manufacturer: Twentieth Century Foundation
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Charles Brecher::Sheila Spiezio
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Publisher: Twentieth Century Foundation
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Dewey Decimal Number: 362.1097471
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Publication Date: 1995-05
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Reading Level: 103
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Description: The authors review the evolution of the municipal hospital system and examine the role of the government-funded Health and Hospitals Corporation.
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Price: $101.95
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Sale: $5.59
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Manufacturer: I. B. Tauris
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Michael Kuczynski etal
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Publisher: I. B. Tauris
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Dewey Decimal Number: 327
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Publication Date: 1999-02-01
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Reading Level: 156
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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. The book assesses the arguments for and against deregulation of the energy sector and highlights the political, legal, institutional, and resource requirements for successful implementation of a privatization program.
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