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The privatization of everything : how the plunder of public goods transformed America and how we can fight back / Donald Cohen, Allen Mikaelian.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cohen, Donald, author.
- Mikaelian, Allen, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Contracting out--United States.
- Contracting out.
- Privatization--United States.
- Privatization.
- Public goods.
- Social justice--United States.
- Social justice.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (vi, 349 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : The New Press, [2021]
- Summary:
- "America's leading defender of the public interest and a bestselling historian show us how to prevent the private takeover of our cherished public resources"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Part I UNDERSTANDING PRIVATIZATION
- 1 Public Goods for the Common Good
- 2 The Roots and Reasons of Privatization
- Part II PUBLIC GOODS FOR LIFE
- 3 Privatizing Public Health Makes Us Sick
- 4 "They Just Have to Pay"
- 5 The Stuff of Life
- Part III THE PUBLIC GETS US THERE
- 6 Economic Destiny and the Pitfalls of the Public-Private Partnership
- 7 Toll Roads at America's Crossroads
- 8 Who Owns the Journey? Recentering the Public
- Part IV PRIVATIZATION'S SLOW COUP
- 9 When the Contract Is King
- 10 Democracy in Darkness
- 11 Skin in the Game
- 12 Freedom Has a Price
- Part V EVERY LAST DIME
- 13 Teaching Them a Lesson
- 14 Privatized Medicaid and the Business of Denying Care
- 15 What's in It for Wall Street
- 16 Privatizing Pays Us Less
- Part VI THINGS IN COMMON
- 17 Public Places
- 18 School Choice and Resegregation
- 19 Public Libraries and Apple Pie
- 20 Communities Take Care
- Part VII PRIVATIZATION DOESN'T WANT YOU TO KNOW
- 21 School Choice and Competition
- 22 Higher Education
- Part VIII "THE CASH JUST POURS OUT"
- 23 Academic Publishing
- 24 They Even Want to Own the Weather
- 25 Drug Prices and the Pirates of the Patent System
- Part IX BECOMING PRO-PUBLIC
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-62097-662-5
- OCLC:
- 1267766691
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