Privatization: Successes and Failures

Edited by Gérard Roland

July, 2008
Cloth, 256 pages, 10 illus., 20 tables
ISBN: 978-0-231-14160-4
$29.50 / £17.50

"This book should be compulsory reading." — Paul Sweeney, Irish Times

"Privatization: Successes and Failures provides the first broad assessment of the benefits and costs of privatization policies around the world for over the past twenty years. Privatization is an important and controversial policy issue, and unlike previous studies, this book's goal is not to champion privatization policies but rather to undertake a deep and careful evaluation of them." — Patrick Bolton, David Zalaznick Professor of Business, Columbia University

Related Subjects

• Economics & Finance
• International Affairs

Series

• Initiative for Policy Dialogue

About the Author

Gérard Roland is professor of economics and political science at the University of California, Berkeley. A leading expert in the field of transition economics and institutional change, he is the author of Transition and Economics: Politics, Markets, and Firms. Joseph E. Stiglitz is University Professor at Columbia University and former chief economist and senior vice president of the World Bank. Among his books are Escaping the Resource Curse and Globalization and Its Discontents, which has been translated into twenty-eight languages. In 2001 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in economics.

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