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PRIVATIZATION:
Trends, evidence, and alternatives

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Conference materials

Below are selected papers by conference participants that we find relevant to the questions discussed at the conference. With a couple of exceptions, these papers were not presented at the conference itself and are not EPI publications (if you have further questions about these papers and their contents, please contact the authors themselves). Most of the conference presentations were informal talks in a roundtable discussion format, many of which were recorded and can be listened to online.

Unless otherwise noted, these papers can be downloaded as Adobe Acrobat PDF files.

Moshe Adler
The Origins of Governmental Production: Cleaning the Streets of New York by Contract During the 19th Century [download PDF]

Eugene Bardach
A Practical Guide for Policy Analysis: The Eightfold Path to More Effective Problem Solving (excerpt) [download PDF]

Ellen J. Dannin
White Paper on Privatization [download PDF]
To Market, To Market: Caveat Emptor [download PDF]

Judith Greene
Comparing Private and Public Prison Services and Programs in Minnesota: Findings from Prisoner Interviews [download PDF]
Prison Privatization: Recent Developments in the United States [download PDF]

Helen F. Ladd
Market-Based Reforms in Urban Education [download PDF]

Ann Markusen
The Case Against Privatizing National Security [download PDF]
Data sheets [1] [2] [Microsoft Excel (.xls) format]

Travis C. Pratt
Are private prisons more cost-effective than public prisons? A meta-analysis of evaluation research studies [download PDF]

Marguerite G. Rosenthal
Public or Private Children’s Services? Privatization in Retrospect
[download PDF]

Elliott Sclar
The Privatization of Public Service: Lessons From Case Studies [view html]
You Don't Always Get What You Pay For: The Economics of Privatization

Joseph E. Stiglitz
The Role of Government in a Digital Age [with Peter R. Orszag and Jonathan M. Orszag] [download PDF]

Bruce A. Wallin
Privatization of state services in Massachusetts: Politics, Policy and an experiment that wasn't [download PDF]

Mildred E. Warner
Taking the High Road: Local Government Restructuring and the Quest for Quality [with Michael J. Ballard] [download PDF]
Privatization and the Market Structuring Role of Local Government
[with Amir Hefetz] [download PDF]

John Williams
Privatization At-Bat:The Game Is Not Over Yet [download PDF]

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