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The Political Economy of Privatization
Contributor(s): Clarke, Thomas (Editor), Pitelis, Christos (Editor)

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 ISBN: 0415086302     ISBN-13: 9780415086301
Publisher: Routledge
OUR PRICE: $266.00  

Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: September 1993
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Annotation: The question of whether privatization has worked has only recently begun to be answered. Earlier studies of privatization have been largely concerned with a theoretical analysis of privatization policy. b /b b i The Political Economy of Privatisation /i /b is the most comprehensive and up to date survey of the experience of privatization programs in practice over the last ten years. br br The contributors provide an international analysis of the extensive privatization of the public sector in the advanced industrial countries; the rapid marketization of the East European countries; and the pressures upon developing countries to adopt deregulation and privatization as the route towards economic growth. The results demonstrate that privatization far from being a uniform process can take many forms, from wholesale denationalization to the contracting of competitive tendering.
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BISAC Categories:
- Business & Economics | Development - Economic Development
- Business & Economics | Economics - General
Dewey: 338.9
LCCN: 92037662
Physical Information: 1.31" H x 6.47" W x 9.26" L (1.82 lbs) 500 pages
Features: Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
 
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In The Political Economy of Privatization the authors assess the success of privatization. The work is an international study of the extensive privatization, and the pressure towards privatization, in different parts of the world. The book includes:
* A study of the relationship between ownership and performance;
* An assessment of the importance of market structure and regulation;
* A discussion of privatization strategies within the public sector;
* Individual country case-studies, looking at the experience of different countries engaged in the contrasting approaches to privatization.
* A critical assessment of the much vaunted relationship between ownership and efficiency.
 
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