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Frontiers in Health Policy Research, Volume 7
"National Bureau of Economic Research."These papers were presented at the seventh annual Frontiers in Health Policy Research meeting held in Washington, D.C., in the summer of 2003.This series from the NBER presents new research by leading economists on current health care policy issues. The papers in this seventh volume, originally presented at the annual Frontiers in Health Policy Research co…
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The great divestiture :evaluating the welfare impact of the British privatiza…
The privatization carried out under the Thatcher and Major governments in Britain has been widely (although not universally) considered a success, and has greatly influenced the privatization of state industries in the transition economies of Eastern Europe. Massimo Florio's systematic analysis is the first comprehensive treatment of the overall welfare impact of this broad national policy of d…
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Transition: The First Decade
A comparative analysis of eleven transition economies.The former socialist countries' transition to market economies is one of the momentous transformations in modern history. The pace and degree of success have varied widely, and there is increasing divergence in performance, structure, and institutions among the transition economies. These differences are largely determined by country-specifi…
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Contested water :the struggle against water privatization in the United State…
"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 Ro…
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Privatization experiences in the European Union
In this work, experts evaluate the varied outcomes of privatization experiences in Austria, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, and the UK.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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Visions of a digital nation :market and monopoly in British telecommunications
"Explores how the British telecom system shaped late social democracy and early neoliberalism"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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The alienation of fact :digital educational privatization, AI, and the false …
"Saltman wrestles with the contradiction between the demand for radical empiricism ("data driven" everything) in contemporary education, and the flight from evidence in the enactment of policy and politics"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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Should the United States Privatize Social Security?
The two papers that make up the core of this book address what is perhaps the most fundamental question in the current debate over Social Security: whether to shift, in part or even entirely, from today's pay-as-you-go system to one that is not just funded but also privatized in the sense that individuals would retain control over the investment of their funds and, therefore, personally bear th…
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Japan’s Failed Revolution: Koizumi and the Politics of Economic Reform
Japan’s Failed Revolution: Koizumi and the Politics of Economic Reform asks why, despite all the high expectations, the Japanese public’s desire for economic reform, and leadership of a majority coalition in a parliamentary democracy, the reformer Prime Minister Koizumi has not achieved the economic reforms expected of him since he surprisingly attained power over a year ago. To unravel thi…
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