Excerpt: Alternatives to Privatisation Edited by David A McDonald and Greg Ruiters

Barnes and Noble have published an extract from Alternatives to Privatisation: Public Options for Essential Services in the Global South edited by David A McDonald and Greg Ruiters.

This excerpt includes an index of chapters, which lists the wide range of topics by various authors included in the book. It also includes the introduction by McDonald and Ruiters and part of chapter two, which looks at the research methods that were used to compile the chapters in the book:

In the ongoing debates about privatization, it is often argued that those who oppose private sector involvement in service delivery do not represent concrete alternatives. There is some truth to this claim, springing in part from the deep impoverishment of debate since the onset of neoliberalism, which pronounced that “there is no alternative” to privatization. This also needs to be seen in contrast to the 1930s, and the post-World War II period when there was a strong sense of the limits and dangers of excessive domination of society by unfettered markets and private sector service provision and much greater scope for understanding the limits of capitalism and the use of state powers to ensure social integration and secure basic needs and wants.

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• Alternatives to Privatisation: Public Options for Essential Services in the Global South edited by David A McDonald and Greg Ruiters
  EAN: 9780796923776
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