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- catalog abstract ""In You Don't Always Get What You Pay For, Elliott D. Sclar offers a look at the pitfalls and promises of public sector privatization in the United States. By describing the underlying economic dynamics of how public agencies and private organizations actually work together, he provides an analysis of the assumptions behind the case for privatization."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b11649965.
- catalog created "2000.".
- catalog date "2000".
- catalog date "2000.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2000.".
- catalog description ""In You Don't Always Get What You Pay For, Elliott D. Sclar offers a look at the pitfalls and promises of public sector privatization in the United States. By describing the underlying economic dynamics of how public agencies and private organizations actually work together, he provides an analysis of the assumptions behind the case for privatization."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 169-176) and index.".
- catalog description "The urge to privatize: from the bureaucratic state to the contract state -- What is the public buying? Identifying the contracted public good -- Public vs. private production: is one better and how would you know? -- What's competition got to do with it? Market structures and public contracting -- All in the system: organizational theories and public contracting -- Restructuring work: the relational contract -- The privatization of public service: economic limits of the contract state.".
- catalog extent "xiii, 184 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "You don't always get what you pay for.".
- catalog identifier "0801437334 (cloth)".
- catalog isFormatOf "You don't always get what you pay for.".
- catalog issued "2000".
- catalog issued "2000.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Ithaca : Cornell University Press,".
- catalog relation "You don't always get what you pay for.".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog spatial "United States.".
- catalog subject "338.973/05 21".
- catalog subject "HD3888 .S35 2000".
- catalog subject "Privatization United States Case studies.".
- catalog subject "Privatization United States.".
- catalog tableOfContents "The urge to privatize: from the bureaucratic state to the contract state -- What is the public buying? Identifying the contracted public good -- Public vs. private production: is one better and how would you know? -- What's competition got to do with it? Market structures and public contracting -- All in the system: organizational theories and public contracting -- Restructuring work: the relational contract -- The privatization of public service: economic limits of the contract state.".
- catalog title "You don't always get what you pay for : the economics of privatization / Elliott D. Sclar.".
- catalog type "Case studies. fast".
- catalog type "text".