Betsy Berry's Articles
- Gambling Brothers
- March 17, 2000
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The Price of Privatization
Gather ‘round, and a true tale I’ll tell about how privatization does not go so well.
In the past decade or so, public officials have rushed to privatize government functions. Corporations, they cried, can do any public job better and cheaper. So on that theoretical assumption, everything from water ...
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