Main description: Seizing opportunities, inventing new products, transforming markets--entrepreneurs are an important and well-documented part of the private sector landscape. Do they have counterparts in the public sphere? The authors argue that they do, and test their argument by focusing on...

The campaign for a federal fleet corporation -- The creation of the federal land banks -- Municipalities struggle to meet new needs -- The truncated career of autonomous federal agencies -- The federal government promotes public authorities -- Public authorities since the Second World War --...

Anticompetitive behavior by state-owned enterprises : incentives and capabilities / David E.M. Sappington, J. Gregory Sidak -- Case studies of anticompetitve SOE behavior / R. Richard Geddes -- Applying the Microsoft decision to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac / Peter J. Wallison -- Anticompetitive...

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 --...