Limits to Privatization - How to Avoid Too Much of a Good Thing - A Report to the Club of Rome (Hardcover, New)

Driven by ideology, the IMF, the World Bank and powerful business interests, governments all over the world have been privatizing services in a growing number of sectors. Not just industrial utilities like energy, water and transport, but health, education, media, communications, pensions, even prisons and defence. But what have been the results? Have private funds and management produced greater efficiency, better economic performance and higher levels of service everywhere? This book is the first thorough audit of privatizations around the world. It shows how and where they have worked well, and where they have defeated their own aims - with serious impacts on public health, environmental sustainability, democratic accountability and the level of public service. It analyses the factors behind success or failure to establish criteria for future sell-offs, and argues for the fundamental importance of democratic governance of the privatization of publicly owned goods. The result is a book of major importance, challenging one of the orthodoxies of our day - a benchmark for future debate.

General

Imprint:	Earthscan
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	March 2005
First published:	2005
Editors:	Marianne Beishem • Oran R Young • Ernst Ulrich von Weizsacker • Matthias Finger
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 28mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	432
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-1-84407-177-7
Categories:	Books > Business & Economics > Business & management > Ownership & organization of enterprises > Privatization
LSN:	1-84407-177-4
Barcode:	9781844071777

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