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Cohen, Donald (Public interest advocate).
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Privatization -- United States.
Public goods -- United States.
Social justice -- United States.
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Cohen, Donald (Public interest advocate).
Privatization -- United States.
Public goods -- United States.
Social justice -- United States.
MARC Display
The privatization of everything : how the plunder of
public
goods
transformed America and how we can fight back / Donald Cohen, Allen Mikaelian.
by
Cohen, Donald (
Public
interest advocate).
The New Press, 2021.
Call #:
352.530973 C678p
Subjects
Privatization
--
United
States
.
Public
goods
--
United
States
.
Social justice
--
United
States
.
ISBN:
9781620976531 (hc.)
Alternate title:
How the plunder of
public
goods
transformed America and how we can fight back
Description:
vi, 349 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Notes:
"'An essential read for those who want to fight the assault on
public
goods
and the commons' --Naomi Klein" --Front cover.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-330) and index.
Summary:
"America's leading defender of the
public
interest and a bestselling historian show us how to prevent the private takeover of our cherished
public
resources. As people reach for social justice and better lives, they create
public
goods--free education,
public
health, open parks, clean water, and many others--that must be kept out of the market. When private interests take over, they strip
public
goods
of their power to lift people up, creating instead a tool to diminish democracy, further inequality, and separate us from each other. 'The Privatization of Everything,' by the founder of In the
Public
Interest, an organization dedicated to shared prosperity and the common good, chronicles the efforts to turn our
public
goods
into private profit centers. Ever since Ronald Reagan labeled government a dangerous threat, privatization has touched every aspect of our lives, from water and trash collection to the justice system and the military. However, citizens can, and are, wresting back what is ours. A Montana city took back its water infrastructure after finding that they could do it better and cheaper. Colorado towns fought back well-funded campaigns to preserve telecom monopolies and hamstring
public
broadband. A motivated lawyer fought all the way to the Supreme Court after the State of Georgia erected privatized paywalls around its legal code. The Privatization of Everything connects the dots across a broad spectrum of issues and raises larger questions about who controls the
public
things we all rely on, exposing the hidden crisis of privatization that has been slowly unfolding over the last fifty years and giving us a road map for taking our country back."--From publisher.
Other authors:
Mikaelian, Allen.
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