Add to ORKGPrivatization of public goods maximizes corporate profits while providing minimal benefits or protections to public health. When calamities such as infectious disease pandemics, natural disasters, and severe weather strike, privatized systems often fail to respond adequately. This issue brief describes how privatization of public goods undermines public health, damages public trust, and erodes democracy and provides suggestions for how we can rethink policies to value people over profits instead of valuing profits over people
Public hospitals have long functioned as the primary source of acute care services in rural communit...
Privatization of large state-owned enterprises has been one of the most radical new policies of the ...
Public good, in economics, a product or service that is non-excludable and nondepletable. A good is ...
Privatization is now commonplace throughout the world: in communist, socialist, and capitalist count...
After the generally acknowledged failure of privatization, public–private partnerships (PPPs) have b...
Mounting empirical evidence of privatization’s benefits coincides with increasing dissatis-faction a...
Policymakers at the local, state, and federal government levels often struggle to balance the impera...
Cost efficiency was the initial goal of privatization--achieved in many cases but not consistently. ...
The growing fiscal crisis confronting governments in the United States and elsewhere has generated i...
For decades, policymakers have been privatizing government responsibilities for the customary, and o...
Since the fall of the Soviet Union, many governments around the world have adopted measures that are...
Our cities are experiencing severe financial and sociological difficulties. Last year, more cities t...
Public health can be achieved only through collective action, not through individual endeavor. Colle...
Privatization is a term that includes competitive contracting as well as deregulation, divestiture, ...
At the Rethinking State Government conference held at the University of Maine in January 1993, a p...
Public hospitals have long functioned as the primary source of acute care services in rural communit...
Privatization of large state-owned enterprises has been one of the most radical new policies of the ...
Public good, in economics, a product or service that is non-excludable and nondepletable. A good is ...
Privatization is now commonplace throughout the world: in communist, socialist, and capitalist count...
After the generally acknowledged failure of privatization, public–private partnerships (PPPs) have b...
Mounting empirical evidence of privatization’s benefits coincides with increasing dissatis-faction a...
Policymakers at the local, state, and federal government levels often struggle to balance the impera...
Cost efficiency was the initial goal of privatization--achieved in many cases but not consistently. ...
The growing fiscal crisis confronting governments in the United States and elsewhere has generated i...
For decades, policymakers have been privatizing government responsibilities for the customary, and o...
Since the fall of the Soviet Union, many governments around the world have adopted measures that are...
Our cities are experiencing severe financial and sociological difficulties. Last year, more cities t...
Public health can be achieved only through collective action, not through individual endeavor. Colle...
Privatization is a term that includes competitive contracting as well as deregulation, divestiture, ...
At the Rethinking State Government conference held at the University of Maine in January 1993, a p...
Public hospitals have long functioned as the primary source of acute care services in rural communit...
Privatization of large state-owned enterprises has been one of the most radical new policies of the ...
Public good, in economics, a product or service that is non-excludable and nondepletable. A good is ...