Rethinking Municipal Privatization New Political Economy Series
Auteur : Cooke Oliver D.
This book examines one of the most high-profile municipal privatizations?the privatization of New York City?s Central Park. The fiscal crisis of the 1970s established the political and cultural opening for privatizations, which were justified on the basis of increasing efficiency. However, as Cooke demonstrates, these justifications were deliberately blind to the social and economic implication of privatization. This fascinating account moves beyond the hackneyed pro- versus anti-privatization debate by reconceptualizing the park?s privatization as an ensemble of contradictory class effects. It also highlights the immense theoretical and policy space for radically reconsidering and rethinking privatization processes in both the municipal and global contexts.
Date de parution : 12-2008
15.2x22.9 cm
Date de parution : 06-2012
Ouvrage de 210 p.
15.2x22.9 cm
Thèmes de Rethinking Municipal Privatization :
Mots-clés :
Municipal Privatization; class; Class Process; processes; CPC; process; Capitalist Class Processes; analytic; Subsumed Class Distributions; approach; Democratic Enterprises; central; Fundraising Donations; park; Progressive Privatization; urban; Nonclass Processes; fiscal; Park’s Privatization; crisis; Nonclass Revenues; Central Park; Communist Enterprises; Private Sector Development; Urban Fiscal Crisis; Class Analytic Approach; Communist Producers; Independent Class Process; Municipal Goods; Noncapitalist Producers; Communist Class Process; Capitalist Class Structures; Class Origin Forms; Fundraising Revenue; Nonprofit Organizations