I've written a five page account of how I think privatization of
electric power was stopped in Korea. I'm going to spare the list the
five pages at this point.
Please let me know off-list if you'd like a copy -- if a number of you
so indicate, I will burden the list with the story.
Gene Coyle
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April 5, 2004 | MILWAUKEE (AP) -- One school that received millions of
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Cabinet OKs highway privatization plan
The Japan Times: March 10, 2004
By TETSUSHI KAJIMOTO
Staff writer
The Cabinet endorsed contentious legislation Tuesday aimed at privatizing
the nation's four expressway corporations.
The move paves the way for the new entities to repay combined debts
Hardy, Michael. 2003. Study Finds $70 Billion in Possible Outsourcing
Federal Computer Week (18 December).
The government's push to open federal jobs to competition could open as
much as $70 billion outsourcing opportunities to private firms, but
lingering uncertainties on the final version of the
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Issue cover-dated October 23, 2003
Spurred by persistent budget deficits and unable to find alternative
sources of revenue, the government has announced a far-reaching divestment
programme
The U.S. military has always had superb logistics. What happened? The answer is a mix
of penny-pinching and privatization — which makes our soldiers' discomfort a symptom
of something more general.
Colonel Hackworth blames "dilettantes in the Pentagon" who "thought they co
Eubulides wrote:
>
> Computers do wondrous things, but computer science itself is largely
> a discipline of step-by-step progress as a steady stream of
> innovations in hardware, software and networking pile up. It is an
> engineering science whose frontiers are pushed ahead by people
> building ne
[NY Times]
July 15, 2003
Teaching Computers to Work in Unison
By STEVE LOHR
Computers do wondrous things, but computer science itself is largely a
discipline of step-by-step progress as a steady stream of innovations in
hardware, software and networking pile up. It is an engineering science
whose
[James Buchanan must *really* be tired of traffic]
Beltway Toll Lanes Endorsed
Va. Transportation Chief Wants Plan Considered
By Michael D. Shear
Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, July 12, 2003; Page B01
RICHMOND, July 11 -- Virginia's top transportation official endorsed a
proposal today
Colombian and Korean trade unions militantly battle privatization.
The privatization drive, in each case, is directed by Washington.
first an excerpt from an e-mail from Andy Higginbottom of the UK
General Strike on 19th June - 'Do or Die' for Colombian Trade Unions
Colombia
A Deal All Wet: Atlanta's Plan
For Water Privatization Failed
By RICK BROOKS
Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
ATLANTA -- Four years ago, Atlanta's move to privatize its water system
was seen as the wave of the future for city governments. But now that
Atlanta officials and
rts are
improving, managing or expanding U.S. military bases from the Camp
Lemonier special forces outpost in Djibouti to detention facilities for
Al Qaeda suspects at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, under two broad Defense
Department contracts that are potentially worth $1.2 billion during the
coming decade.
Original Message
Subject: IMF Loan Conditions for Nicaragua Require Privatization
Measures That Would Enrich Corporations at the Expense of People
Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2002 08:48:29 -0500
From: "Dennis Roy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
For Immediate Release: Contact:
Is the GPO endangered?
Information Today; Medford; Sep 2002; Miriam A Drake;
Volume: 49
Issue: 8
Start Page: 1,46
Sic:926110Sic:926110 Abstract:
Mitchell E. Daniels Jr., director of the Office of Management and
Budget, issued a memorandum to the heads of executive departments
and agencies dire
Title: Re: Privatization of
information
Joanna writes:
> Right, though you'll notice nobody wants to
privatize the army.
there was an interview of
someone from the Brookings Institute on U.S. National Public Radio a
couple of days ago that sugested that a significant portion of
Title: privatization
[was: RE: [PEN-L:32445] Re: Re: Re: Re: Privatization of information]
Ian writes:>Also, some activists have begun speaking of corporatization rather than
privatization because to concede to the corps. vocabulary is to hobble
ourselves.<
Almost no phenomenon is
working in Colombia.
Also, some activists have begun speaking of corporatization rather than
privatization because to concede to the corps. vocabulary is to hobble
ourselves.
Ian
Title: RE: [PEN-L:32442] Re: Re: Re: Privatization of information
Joanna writes:
> Right, though you'll notice nobody wants to privatize the army.
there was an interview of someone from the Brookings Institute on U.S. National Public Radio a couple of days ago that sugeste
At 12:08 PM 11/21/2002 -0800, you wrote:
The fly in the ointment is this: the government is now controlled by the
very forces that want to end government, period, and exchange it
for total control by themselves, the elite wealthy corporatistas.
Right, though you'll notice nobody wants to priv
So, in competition with for-profit services, a spokesman for the
industry admits that government is more efficient and would win a fair
fight. Therefore, we must let "the market ... decide", by removing
the government from the equation by fiat.
The fly in the ointment is this: the government i
On Wednesday, November 20, 2002 at 20:31:43 (-0800) michael perelman writes:
>...
>David LeDuc, public policy director of the SIIA, said the issue is
>whether there should be publicly funded competition for commercial
>search services.
>
>LeDuc said free government services could drive out corporat
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To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, November 20, 2002 8:31 PM
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> Jonathan Krim
> Washington Post Staff Writer
&
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> > Jonathan Krim
> > Washington Post Staff Writer
> > November 21, 2002; Page E01
>
> =
>
> The technology transfer provisions in HR 5005 as well as many other facets
> of that bill should give fans/criti
Jonathan Krim
Washington Post Staff Writer
November 21, 2002; Page E01
The Energy Department has shut down a popular Internet site that
catalogued government and academic science research, in response to
corporate complaints that it competed with similar commercial services.
Department officials
SOUTH AFRICA:
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PRIVATIZING WATER
DEMONSTRATE AND PETITION AT THE SOUTH AFRICAN CONSULATE
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333 East 38th Street (between 1st and 2nd Aves.)
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THURSDAY AUGUST 15 - 12:00 noon to 1:00 pm
On August 15th members of the
Ken,
Have you "googled" Romanow and Sweden? At the very least you'll find some
excellent contextual questions about the different records of Canadian and
Swedish policy on the _determinants_ of health, such as child poverty.
Tom Walker
604 255 4812
:17 PM
Subject: [PEN-L:26913] Re: Health Care Privatization (was firefighters)
> I don't know if Ken Hanly was specifically looking for a critique of the
> Swedish health care privatization or more general. Here is a good one from
> Canada with several pages of references:
>
I don't know if Ken Hanly was specifically looking for a critique of the
Swedish health care privatization or more general. Here is a good one from
Canada with several pages of references:
http://www.chspr.ubc.ca/hpru/pdf/2000-3d.PDF
Robert Evans, one of the authors of the above, may kn
Michael, Could you send me Spencer's article (again).
Thanks.
kind regards
Martin
At 06:26 PM 09-09-01 -0700, you wrote:
>The following article is interesting in several respects. First,
>it shows how the state is trying to shortchange the local prisons
>in favor of the for-profit prisons. Also
Bill Rosenberg wrote,
>A wonderful example of how privatised companies (Air New Zealand) are run so
>much better than state-owned ones and are no longer a drain on the state ...
Good news (for me). These days I specialize in consulting on seniority
integration for the labour unions at merged air
A wonderful example of how privatised companies (Air New Zealand) are run so
much better than state-owned ones and are no longer a drain on the state ...
Bill
Rob Schaap wrote:
>
> http://www.abc.net.au/news/newslink/default.htm
>
> Crisis talks aim to keep Ansett fro
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newslink/default.htm
Crisis talks aim to keep Ansett from
receivership
Frantic negotiations are underway on both sides of
the Tasman in a
bid to save Ansett Airlines
re: prisons, and military keynesianism of another michael post, have you
seen?:
http://www.cfeps.org/public/KeynesWrayWP4.htm
it's randy wray's piece on military and penal keynesianism.
we will have a conference on incarceration at umkc in the spring, btw.
people doing work on these issues shd
The following article is interesting in several respects. First,
it shows how the state is trying to shortchange the local prisons
in favor of the for-profit prisons. Also, take a look at the
comparison between the situation of prisons and airlines.
Mississippi's Prison-Building Spree Creates
G
about the same size as the
putative Social Security shortfall: the Bush tax cut, which will
eventually reduce revenue by about 1.7 percent of G.D.P.
There is a case for reforming Social Security; there is even a
case for privatization. But we can't have a meaningful debate about
reform unless th
The paragraph below is quoted from the web page of a
typical developing government following the Washington
concensus and underlines the Privatization dogma
"In addition, the Government is in process of
preparing the privatization file for a number of
sectors such as telecommunication
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Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2001 9:46 AM
Subject: [ASDnet] Ghana: Water Privatization
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Public Services International
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Privatization
United States
9 Feb 01 AMERICAN WATER WORKS MOVES FORWARD WITH LARGEST
PRIVATIZATION OF A MUNICIPAL SYSTEM
American Water Works Company, Inc., announced today that its Pennsylvania
subsidiary has received approval from the
The problem with this analysis is that it is, at best, only half right. Of
course a centralising government that creates lots of extra paperwork by
setting targets and constructing complex auditing frameworks and
bureaucracies will create more problems than it solves. But this is to
ignore the rea
> As a result, the government can't afford schools and
> hospitals of the same quality as those in Germany and
> France. Yet, even after cutting taxes substantially below the
> European average and freeing its labor markets from a union
> armlock, Britain hasn't seen nearly the sort of payoff the
rain network and another victim
of chronic underinvestment. Antique escalators remain out
of service for weeks. Trains often sputter to a long halt
between stations.
A proposed "partial privatization" of the Tube would shift
the financing and management of renovation to private
companies
City Colleges teachers fear their jobs
could go private
By J. Linn Allen
Tribune Higher Education Writer
February 15, 2001
Trail-blazing moves by the City Colleges of Chicago that
could lead to
privatizing a broad swath of t
We now have a web page with materials on our
privatization conference, including selected
papers & real audio of some of the panels.
You find it by going to our home page first
(http://epinet.org).
comments appreciated.
mbs
NYT
> January 14, 2001
>
> THE BUSINESS WORLD
>
> For Poles, Privatization Is a Flask Half-Full
>
> By PETER S. GREEN
>
> [P] OZNAN, Poland -- The
> only thing that is
>
e its operation in practice. I have had the
opportunity to observe from up close an instructive instance: the
privatization of social property in my homeland of Slovenia.
Slovenian Privatization
Slovenia borders Italy, Austria, Hungary, and Croatia and in the last
decade became, for the fir
At 08:47 AM 12/23/2000 +, you wrote:
>The opinion poll on the British railways, and Jim's lively account of a
>conversation at a check out, illustrate the truth, as Lenin said (WITBD
>section 2B) that "The working class spontaneously gravitates towards
>socialism."
the working class may sp
PLEASE UNSUBSCRIBE ME
I've tried every manner imaginable to be purged from this list - please
please please let me off of here
00 -0800, Jim Devine wrote:
>At 07:26 PM 12/21/2000 -0800, you wrote:
>>Chris writes about the privatized British railroad system. It makes me think
>>that we might do well to construct a web site with a catalog, short
>>description and links to failures of privatization and d
No papers. These will be informal presentations
on past research, leavened with practical experience
from representatives of employers and employees.
There will be at least as much discussion as presentation.
mbs
Will the papers be available?
--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
Califo
Will the papers be available?
--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 95929
Tel. 530-898-5321
E-Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Those planning on attending should RSVP to Tom
Kiley at EPI: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Privatization:
Trends, Evidence, Alternatives
A Conference of the Economic Policy Institute
January 11, 2001; Madison Hotel, Washington D.C.
Agenda
January 11, 2001 (Thursday)
8:30-9:00 a.m. Continental
increased privatization looked tougher to work out.
The signs of economic trouble have intensified in recent days as concerns
deepened that the government has not done enough to fight inflation, revamp
its troubled banks and sell state enterprises.
"This started as a short-term liquidity c
> Does anyone know what year Chile privatized it's Social Security
system?
Beginning in 1981, though initially the eligible assets were quite
restricted.
For an overview see Diamond and Valdes-Prieto, "Social Security
Reforms," in Bosworth et al. eds. 1994. _The Chilean Economy._
B
> Does anyone know what year Chile privatized it's Social Security
system?
Beginning in 1981, though initially the eligible assets were quite
restricted.
For an overview see Diamond and Valdes-Prieto, "Social Security
Reforms," in Bosworth et al. eds. 1994. _The Chilean Economy._
Brookings.
Bes
Does anyone know what year Chile privatized it's Social Security system?
Ian
this is reminiscent of an old science fiction book by Pohl and Kornbluth,
titled THE SPACE MERCHANTS, in which corporations choose US Senators. If
there's a legal dispute, it's appealed up to the Chamber of Commerce. It's
the logical conclusion of the _laissez faire_ variant of orthodox
econom
>>You may have seen this before, but it is worthwhile to remind ourselves
that in our democracy that votes are proportional to dollars. I picked
this account out of Al Krebs's valuable e-mail newsletter, the
Agribusiness Examiner.
Welcome to the new, improved "free trade".
The WTO is
You may have seen this before, but it is worthwhile to remind ourselves
that in our democracy that votes are proportional to dollars. I picked
this account out of Al Krebs's valuable e-mail newsletter, the
Agribusiness Examiner.
SENATOR MAJORITY LEADER LOTT SEEKS
TO GIVE CHIQUITA VETO POWER
OVER
a, but saying there were internal causes too, that were very
difficult.
What has this got to do with "Milosevic and privatization"? My sense that
their mixture of market socialism, was somehow not the right one, and had
no inbuilt market mechanism for dealing divergent rates of econo
Date sent: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 08:38:27 -0700
From: Michael Perelman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject:[PEN-L:3248] Re: Milosevic and privatization
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Send reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> I have another
>So how did Slovenia resist the neolib virus? Social democratic
>parties? Strong unions? A developed welfare state?
>
>-- Dennis
Actually, the latest Z Magazine has an article by Michael Parenti that
describes the stubborn refusal of the Slovenes to go whole hog with "shock
therapy". Apparently t
Jim asks:
> thanks for this message. I have a question: wasn't one reason for the
> movement away from workers' control (socialized property?) is that there
> was excessive decentralization, which led to continuous contracting and
> re-contracting even within factories?
>
Under the 1976 Law
I have another question for Paul. Wasn't the decline in workers' remittances a
major factor?
Also, when you think about it, penners, try to remove the re re re's from the
subject line.
--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 95929
Tel. 530-898-5321
E-Mail
Paul Phillips wrote:
>... I would also use this opportunity to respond to some of Chris'
>comments about Serb policy in the late 1980s re the privatization
>of the 'socialist' property system. First, the pressure for the end of
>the 'social property' system
On Wed, 18 Oct 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Everthing I have heard is that he was personally honest (i.e. non-
> corrupt) though he did not extend his personal standards to those
> around him, including his immediate family.
Well, Bill Clinton hasn't *personally* benefited from slashing cap
prevalent among Macedonians in their
attitudes towards the Albanian muslims both in Kosovo and
Macedonia.
I would also use this opportunity to respond to some of Chris'
comments about Serb policy in the late 1980s re the privatization
of the 'socialist' property system. Firs
Buford:
>A crucial feature of overall socialist control of an economy would have
>been how to adjust for the differential in growth rates in different parts
>of the country. Block transfer of funds from areas like Serbia to Kosovo,
>may have been only part of an answer, and one open to Serb res
At 21:07 17/10/00 -0400, Michael Hoover wrote:
>Point of all this is to suggest that anti-privatization stance and move to
>control "commanding heights" in recent years was more a pragmatic
>response to circumstances than an indication of commitment to socialism.
>Milosevi
> [These are typical results of a Lexis-Nexis search done on "Serb" AND
> "privatization" for the years 1996-1997].
> Christian Science Monitor, June 6, 1996
> Milosevic
> is revoking some privatization and free-market measures.
> Louis Proyect
Belate
Jim Devine:
>hell to preserve that power. Second, there's the specific kind of
>corruption I was talking about, the use of collectively-owned assets for
>private gain. Now, I don't know the facts of the matter, but Milosevic's
>colleagues have been accused regularly of exactly that.
Of course
At 09:13 AM 10/11/00 -0400, you wrote:
> >The problem with Lexis-Nexis is that they use the word "privatization" in
> >the orthodox meaning of that word in this age of neoliberalism. I was not
> >using it in that way. Instead, I was referring to the common practice of
>The problem with Lexis-Nexis is that they use the word "privatization" in
>the orthodox meaning of that word in this age of neoliberalism. I was not
>using it in that way. Instead, I was referring to the common practice of
>insiders in a government (friends of the Pres.)
[was: Re: Re: Cops from Cacak play key role in Kostunica coup]
I wrote: >>Might not the upsurge against Kostunica be considered as a
speeding-up of the process that Milosevic started, i.e., the privatization
of state property in Serbia? it also would be a broadening of the
transformat
More sellouts;
Ken Hanly
Subject:
JO'BURG GETS SEATTLED - Business Day
Date:
Fri, 28 Jul 2000 11:40:42 -0700
Business Day
13/7/00
JO'BURG GETS SEATTLED
Holding up an unexploded orange water balloon like a trophy,
water and
forestry director-general Mike Muller b
June Zaccone had sent this to pen-l some time ago:
Elliott Sclar's "You Don't Always Get What You Pay For:the Economics of
Privatization," is reviewed in yesterday's Times in the Business
section, p. 7. The book is based partly on extensive research with
unions trying
World Bank Forced Water Privatization On Cochabamba
Jim Shultz
Saturday, July 15, 2000 in the Minneapolis Star-Tribune
The Star Tribune does a service to its readers by calling attention to
the growing public debate over the World Bank's policies in poor
countries.
The paper is also right
Elliott Sclar's "You Don't Always Get What You Pay For:the Economics of
Privatization," is reviewed in yesterday's Times in the Business
section, p. 7. The book is based partly on extensive research with
unions trying to avoid privatization as well as with city official
ggle and government
violence in Bolivia surrounding privatization of the public water system.
Last year World Bank economists told Bolivia that "no public subsidies"
should be allowed to keep water rates affordable. When the Bolivian
government tried to privatize the water system in respons
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