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In this 2010 Falling Walls lecture video, social and cultural anthropologist Shalini Randeria addresses the dynamics of accumulation by dispossession in India, with an extensive documentation of ethnographic case studies from various regions of the country. This lecture explores social issues including the expropriation of farmers, fishing communities, and slum dwellers; the destruction of hill villages; the curtailment of rights of nomadic pastoralists;...
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"In You Don't Always Get What You Pay For, Elliott D. Sclar offers a look at the pitfalls and promises of public sector privatization in the United States. By describing the underlying economic dynamics of how public agencies and private organizations actually work together, he provides an analysis of the assumptions behind the case for privatization."--Jacket.
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"Privatization, the centerpiece of neoliberal reform policies, reflects the preeminent role of market forces and the diminished role of the state in Latin America's political economy. While it is far too early to evaluate privatization's long-term performance in achieving the objectives of reform, this volume assesses its initial effects and suggests directions for future change. Eight country cases focus on issues of macroeconomic stability and fiscal...
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"Privatization: Successes and Failures evaluates the practices and results of privatization in Eastern Europe, Africa, Latin America, and Asia. Featuring the world's leading economists and experts on privatization, this volume offers a broad and balanced analysis of specific privatization projects and uncovers some surprising trends. Privatization concludes with alternative frameworks for countries in Africa and other regions that seek to develop...
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"The Evolving Bargain provides the first indepth look at the impact of deregulation and privatization on managers' strategic agendas in industries around the world. Emmons emphasizes that these reforms are not one-time events, but dynamic processes that shape the ongoing relationship, or bargain, between governments and affected enterprises. He also shows how the contexts of both industry and country influence a firm's strategic options and performance...
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Most research on the effects of privatizations in Latin America has focused on efficiency or productivity gains rather than welfare issues, such as job losses, changes in general welfare, including access to public services, price reductions and quality improvement. The essays collected in Privatization for the Public Good put together a compelling picture of the direct welfare effects of privatization using unique household data sets for six Latin...
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"Beginning in 1983, the Mexican government implemented one of the most extensive programs of market-oriented reform in the developing world. Downsizing the State examines a key element of this reform program: the privatization of public firms."
"After providing a broad overview of the growth and decline of public ownership in Mexico, Dag MacLeod analyzes the process of privatization in three key industries - aviation, telecommunications, and railroads....
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"This book addresses one of these questions: how can government fairly and effectively regulate what are "natural monopolies"--Those infrastructure and utility services whose technologies make competition impractical?"
"Rather than sticking narrowly to economics, José A. Gómez-Ibáñez also draws on history, politics, and a wealth of examples to provide a road map for various approaches to regulation. He makes a strong case for favoring market-oriented...
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"Major study explores antecedents to privatization strategies in Mexico, and impact of those choices on economic development and political liberalization. Offers controversial interpretations of the consequences of privatization, while also providing many insights into the background and rationale for pursuing this strategy"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.
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Shichor (criminal justice, California State U., San Bernardino) offers a review of the literature on privatization of prisons, of interest to researchers, policymakers, correctional officers, and advanced students. He raises fundamental questions about the functions of state and government, the limits of civil liberties, and the relevance of a util.
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At the present time, the United States federal government retains title to roughly a quarter of the nation's land, including national parks, forests, wildlife refuges, and several hundred million miscellaneous acres. Managing these properties is expensive and often contentious, and few management decisions escape criticism. Some observers, however, argue that this criticism is misdirected, that the fundamental problem is collective ownership itself;...
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"Attempts by local governments to privatize water services have met with furious opposition. Activists argue that to give private companies control of the water supply is to turn water from a common resource into a marketized commodity. Moreover, to cede local power to a global corporation puts communities at the center of controversies over economic globalization. In Contested Water, Joanna Robinson examines local social movement organizing against...
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"That education should instill and nurture democracy is an American truism. Yet organizations such as the Business Roundtable, together with conservative philanthropists such as Bill Gates and Walmart's owners, the Waltons, have been turning public schools into corporate mills. Their top-down programs, such as Common Core State Standards, track, judge, and homogenize the minds of millions of American students from kindergarten through high school....
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