Kategoria BISAC: Business & Economics >> Government & Business

Is it always more effective and less expensive to use taxpayer dollars to engage private companies rather than have the government run enterprises itself? Do consumers always benefit from the privatization of services? What happens when privatization stops being an abstract, theoretical debate and is actually put to the test in the real world? "Privatize This? Assessing the Opportunities and Costs of Privatization" is the place to find out.

"Privatize This?" provides a clear, easy-to-apply model for evaluating the pros and cons of the privatization process and then puts the model to...

At a time when corporations are reeling from mismanagement, a large proportion of homeowners are being forced to default on mortgages and the federal government is rapidly extending its formidable reach into the private sector, it is understandable that many Americans no longer trust big business and government institutions. To get the United States back on track and to preclude the same kinds of disasters in the future, it is imperative for corporate and government leaders as well as private citizens to understand the commonality in all of these events--the use and abuse of...

Increasingly, headlines today report out-of-control student violence occurring in our schools and colleges. Yet so little concrete action is being taken to protect the bystanding victims of this trauma the school worker. Classroom teachers, administrators, coaches, school bus drivers, cafeteria workers, custodians, and other school employees are all at risk.

Now, at last, a hands-on guidebook to help educators win back the job they were hired to do, namely: educate our young people and prepare them to succeed throughout life s journey. In Violence in Today's School...

In her profoundly original Shadow Elite, award-winning public policy scholar and anthropologist Janine R. Wedel gives us the tools we need to recognize these powerful yet elusive figures and to comprehend the new system....