Part I. Understanding the public option: The failure of privatization -- How the public option promotes opportunity and competition -- The theory of the public option -- Caveats and counterarguments -- Part II. The history of the public option: Social security and other successes -- Mixed...

Market-based governance and the architecture of accountability / John D. Donahue -- Government contracting for health care / Karen Eggleston and Richard Zeckhauser -- Service contracting with nonprofit and for-profit providers : on preserving a mixed organizational ecology / Peter Frumkin --...

Embarrassed by business -- Big lie #1, the current downturn means the death of capitalism -- Big lie #2, when the rich get richer, the poor get poorer -- Big lie #3, business executives are overpaid and corrupt -- Big lie #4, big business is bad, small business is good -- Big lie #5, government...