A deeply reported history of the past four decades of handing public services over to private companies provides a stunning account of how not to govern.
Mark Levinson
Mark Levinson is the chief economist at the Service Employees International Union and the book review editor of Dissent.
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Mismeasuring Poverty
The way we determine who needs help blocks many poor people from receiving the assistance they need.
Posted inBooks, Arts and Culture
When the “Flat World” Shakes
End of the Line: The Rise and Coming Fall of the Global Corporation by Barry C. Lynn (Doubleday, 312 pages, $26.00) The End of the Line is about the consequences of the “taking apart” of the modern corporation — the outsourcing of operations to the far corners of the world by companies such as Wal-Mart, […]
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One-Sided World
In Defense of Globalization By Jagdish Bhagwati, Oxford University Press, 296 pages, $28.00 When N. Gregory Mankiw, chairman of the president’s Council of Economic Advisers, declared in February that the outsourcing of jobs to foreign countries was a good thing, he was only saying what advocates of free trade have always believed. But […]
