The privatization of everything : how the plunder of public goods transformed America and how we can fight back / Donald Cohen, Allen Mikaelian.

By:

Cohen, Donald

Contributor(s):

Mikaelian, Allen

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Publisher: New York ; London : The New Press, 2021Description: vi, 349 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9781620976531 (hardcover)
1620976536 (hardcover)

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

338.973/05

LOC classification:

HD 3861 C678p 2021

Contents:

Part I. Understanding privatization. Public goods for the common good The roots and reasons of privatization: A very brief history Part II. Public goods for life: the dangers of privatizing public health, water, and food safety. Privatizing public health makes us sick: an epidemic of market failures "They just have to pay": privatizing the public's water supply The stuff of life: reclaiming public water Part III. The public gets us there: transportation, communication, and economies that work for all. Economic destiny and the pitfalls of the public-private partnership Toll roads at America's crossroads Who owns the journey? recentering the public Part IV. Privatization's slow coup: the undermining of democracy and justice. When the contract is king: how privatization trumps democracy Democracy in darkness: privatization's shadow over transparency Skin in the game: environmental and planning policy in privatization's grip Freedom has a price: privatization's assault on the justice system Part V. Every last dime: shredding the social safety net, generating inequality. Teaching them a lesson: privatization versus the poor Privatized Medicaid and the business of denying care What's in it for Wall Street: public assistance in the hands of big finance Privatizing pays us less Part VI. Things in common: privatization and the erosion of community. Public places: parks, presidents, and privatization School choice and resegregation Public libraries and apple pie Communities take care: how Social Secutity defines us Part VII. Privatization doesn't want you to know: the corruption of public education. School choice and competition: when creative destruction is just destruction Higher education: who fills the void? Part VIII. "The cash just pours out": the privatization of public science and research. Academic publishing: how to pay for knowledge three times over They even want to own the weather Drug prices and the pirates of the patent system Part IX. Becoming pro-public

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.

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Item type	Current library	Home library	Collection	Shelving location	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Libro	Biblioteca Juan Bosch	Biblioteca Juan Bosch	Ciencias Sociales	Ciencias Sociales (3er. Piso)	HD 3861 C678p 2021 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		00000165658

Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-330) and index.

Part I. Understanding privatization. Public goods for the common good
The roots and reasons of privatization: A very brief history
Part II. Public goods for life: the dangers of privatizing public health, water, and food safety. Privatizing public health makes us sick: an epidemic of market failures
"They just have to pay": privatizing the public's water supply
The stuff of life: reclaiming public water
Part III. The public gets us there: transportation, communication, and economies that work for all. Economic destiny and the pitfalls of the public-private partnership
Toll roads at America's crossroads
Who owns the journey? recentering the public
Part IV. Privatization's slow coup: the undermining of democracy and justice. When the contract is king: how privatization trumps democracy
Democracy in darkness: privatization's shadow over transparency
Skin in the game: environmental and planning policy in privatization's grip
Freedom has a price: privatization's assault on the justice system
Part V. Every last dime: shredding the social safety net, generating inequality. Teaching them a lesson: privatization versus the poor
Privatized Medicaid and the business of denying care
What's in it for Wall Street: public assistance in the hands of big finance
Privatizing pays us less
Part VI. Things in common: privatization and the erosion of community. Public places: parks, presidents, and privatization
School choice and resegregation
Public libraries and apple pie
Communities take care: how Social Secutity defines us
Part VII. Privatization doesn't want you to know: the corruption of public education. School choice and competition: when creative destruction is just destruction
Higher education: who fills the void?
Part VIII. "The cash just pours out": the privatization of public science and research. Academic publishing: how to pay for knowledge three times over
They even want to own the weather
Drug prices and the pirates of the patent system
Part IX. Becoming pro-public

"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.

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