Jose A Gomez-Ibanez Bücher

Over the past two decades Americans have become increasingly skeptical about the benefits of community growth and hostile to new taxes--while continuing to demand improvements in local services.

In the 1980s and '90s, many countries turned to the private sector to provide infrastructure and utilities, with the idea that market-based incentives would control costs and improve the quality of essential services. But subsequent debacles raised troubling questions about privatization. This book addresses one of the most vexing of these.