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 --...

Analyses transnational corporations, groups who resist them, and the primary context within which the relationship between transnational corporations and their opponents unfold: the state. Argues that globalization is a contested terrain in which the power of transnational corporations is...

Trade expert Juhasz explores the Bush Administration's plan to dominate the world through a corporate globalization agenda, first in Iraq, then the proposed U.S.-Middle East Free Trade Area, and ultimately as a cornerstone to the global Bush Doctrine. Bush's "free trade" economic model argues...