Should the United States Privatize Social Security? -- Contents -- Introduction -- Social Security Reform: Two Tiers Are Better Than One -- Social Security: Tune It Up, Don t Trade It In -- Comments -- Responses -- Rejoinder -- Contributors -- Index.

Front Matter -- Preface -- Contents -- Executive Summary -- 1 Key Issues in Water Services Privatization -- 2 History of U.S. Water and Wastewater Systems -- 3 Forces of Change in the Water Service Industry -- 4 Models of Water Service Provision -- 5 Structural, Pricing, and Regulatory Issues --...

Intro -- Map and Time Zones -- At a Glance (2002) -- Basic Information -- Geography -- Politics -- Political Structure -- Political Parties -- Economy -- Background -- Current Trends -- Regional Differences -- Investment and Trade -- E-Commerce -- Preparing to Leave -- Scheduling -- Visas and...

Water Capitalism proposes the privatization of all bodies of water, because those who own resources husband their assets far more carefully than do bureaucrats who have no real stake in the environment. The idea that an all-powerful state should, or could, care for the physical liquid environs...

Key Features:Shows the transformation the newest members of ASEAN (Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar and Laos) and the newest members of EU (ten new Members from Baltic, Central and Eastern Balkan regions) have experienced during the last two decades (1990-2010)Uses a common theoretical framework based on...

Intro -- Contents -- List of Tables -- List of Figures -- List of Abbreviations -- 1. Introduction: The Embedded Politics of Institutional Change in Postcommunism -- 2. Institutional Experiments and the Emergence of Industrial Networks in Communist Czechoslovakia -- 3. State Designs for Defining...