Privatization Response Essay at Cato Unbound
An interesting discussion is underway over at the Cato Unbound website regarding privatization and outsourcing - check out my contribution here.
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Obama's FOIA Transparency Raises Questions
An article published by Geoffrey Ingersoll from the Business Insider investigates President Obama's "new era of transperency" regarding the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). Recently, roughly 200...
View ArticleNew Study of Romney's Medicare Plan
Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar of the Associated Press recently published an article analyzing Mitt Romney's proposal to change Medicare to a "premium support" system.In a new report issued by the nonpartisan...
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Why Privatization Won't Solve the Student Loan Problem
Mitchell D. Weiss, an adjunct professor of finance at the University of Hartford, recently posted an interesting article concerning America's growing student loan crisis. I encourage you to read the...
View ArticlePrison Privatization Talks in New Hampshire Stalls
In an article written by Bob Sanders of the New Hampshire Business Review, it was revealed that New Hampshire has stalled all privatization talks of its prison system for the near future. The...
View ArticleLegislative Committees Delay Vote on Privatizing State Employee Benefits
Jeff Adelson recently posted an update on the latest news regarding Louisiana's ongoing privatization battle of its state employee benefits program.I posted an article on this issue at the end of...
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Privatized Prison in Ohio Gets 2nd Chance at Audit
CBS News published an article discussing a recent audit conducted on the nation's first privately owned state prison located in Ohio. This was a follow up audit to ensure health and safety violations...
View ArticleDoes Prison Privatization Lead To More Lobbying For Harsher Sentences?
This question is probably a long way from being fully understood. It depresses me to see prison corporations lobbying for things like the war on drugs, but what we often forget is that such lobbying...
View ArticlePrivatization and Cartels
For years I have written that the single most common failure mode of privatization is when it replaces a public agency monopoly with a private cartel. Private actors are not inherently more efficient...
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Pennsylvania Lottery Privatization Moves Forward
Pennsylvania is the only state in the nation that allots all revenue earned from the state lottery solely to programs for seniors. It appears Pennsylvania is set to become the third state in the...
View ArticleChicago Accepting Bids to Privatize Airport
Kathy Bergen, of the Chicago Tribune Review, has an interesting article outlining the current bidding process for companies seeking to gain control of Chicago's Midway Airport. Potential bidders are...
View ArticlePrivatization and National Parks
I was on Huffington Post Live the other day in a panel discussion on privatizing National Parks. The link to the video and comments is here.None of the panelists, including me, advocated for...
View ArticleFollow Up: Pennsylvania's Privatization of Lottery
On Thursday, January 17, I posted an article discussing Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett's plan to privatize his state's lottery system. The sole company seeking control of the lottery, Camelot Global...
View ArticleAnalyzing Public vs. Private Sector Objectives
Eduaro Porter, of the New York Times, published an interesting article analyzing how organizations, whether they be public or private, can most effectively meet their business goals. The article...
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Sasha Volokh on Privatization and the Employee-Contractor Distinction
Alexander Volokh has a new article in the UCLA Law Review entitled Privatization and the ElusiveEmployee-Contractor Distinction. In it, he tackles an important - and hitherto neglected - aspect of...
View ArticleVolokh on Privatization and Antitrust
Another interesting new publication by Alexander Volokh is his post Privatization and Antitrust over on the Volokh Conspiracy blog. He summarizes his forthcoming book chapter on the subject - we look...
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Russian Governor's Office Searched in Alleged Privatization Fraud
Russian Governor, Nikita Belykh's office was searched recently in connection with suspected embezzlement of a local distillery that was privatized in 2010. The distillery in question, Urzhum Distillery...
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Does Government Outsourcing Impede Job Growth?
Robert Strenge reports at thee Washington State University News Center that new research indicates privatization of prisons yields disappointing results for the states' labor market, especially in...
View ArticleHolding Off On Chicago's Airport Privatization Deal
Joe Cahill, of chicagobusiness.com, published an article urging Mayor Rahm Emanuel to reconsider privatizing Chicago's Midway Airport. Mr. Cahill preaches patience in making a decision, citing...
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Privatized Lawmaking
My new manuscript Costs of Codificationis ready for submission to the journals now [please download it and take a look - your feedback is wanted]. It includes a discussion of a particular type of...
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