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Democracy and Regulation: How the Public Can Govern Essential Services
Greg Palast
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Description for Democracy and Regulation: How the Public Can Govern Essential Services
Paperback. Shows how the deregulation of public services in the US has been a success, why it has failed elsewhere, and what can be done to fix this. Num Pages: 240 pages, 24 figures / 4 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; KFFD; KJVD; KNS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 154 x 14. Weight in Grams: 358.
Essential services are being privatised the world over. Whether it's water, gas, electricity or the phone network, everywhere from Sao Paulo in Brazil to Leeds in the UK is following the US economic model and handing public services over to private companies whose principal interest is raising prices. Yet it's one of the world's best kept secrets that Americans pay astonishingly little for high quality public services.
This book, based on work for the United Nations International Labour Organisation is the first step-by-step guide to the way that public services are regulated in the United States. ... Read more
Essential services are being privatised the world over. Whether it's water, gas, electricity or the phone network, everywhere from Sao Paulo in Brazil to Leeds in the UK is following the US economic model and handing public services over to private companies whose principal interest is raising prices. Yet it's one of the world's best kept secrets that Americans pay astonishingly little for high quality public services.
This book, based on work for the United Nations International Labour Organisation is the first step-by-step guide to the way that public services are regulated in the United States. ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Pluto Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780745319421
SKU
V9780745319421
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Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-50
About Greg Palast
Greg Palast is an investigative journalist whose articles have appeared in the New York Times, Observer, Washington Post, and The Nation and Salon.com. He has appeared on BBC Newsnight as special investigations reporter. He is the winner Financial Times David Thomas Prize, for Industrial Society Investigative Story of the Year. He has also been nominated by the UK Press Association ... Read more
Reviews for Democracy and Regulation: How the Public Can Govern Essential Services
The authors (an economist-reporter, a lawyer, and a regulator) have a wealth of experience in utility regulation, and it is evident on every page. The recent electricity crisis in California (and Enron's participation) receives considerable attention. Throughout the book the democratic process receives most of the credit or blame. The authors' detailed description of the US utility regulatory system will ... Read more