Privatization and Its Discontents - Couverture souple

Titolo, Matthew

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1108468764 ISBN 13 : 9781108468763

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2023

Synopsis

In Privatization and its Discontents, Matthew Titolo situates the contemporary debate over infrastructure in the long history of public-private governance in the United States. Titolo begins with Adam Smith's arguments about public works and explores debates over internal improvements in the early republic, moving to the 20th century regulatory state and public-interest liberalism that created vast infrastructure programs. While Americans have always agreed that creation and oversight of 'infrastructure' is a proper public function, Titolo demonstrates that public-private governance has been a highly contested practice throughout American history. Public goods are typically provided with both government and private actors involved, resulting in an ideological battle over the proper scope of the government sphere and its relationship to private interests. The course of that debate reveals that 'public' and 'private' have no inherent or natural content. These concepts are instead necessarily political and must be set through socially negotiated compromise.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Matthew Titolo is a Professor of Law at the University of West Virginia College of Law. Professor Titolo researches nineteenth-century American legal and political history and teaches American legal history as well as commercial law courses.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 2023
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1108468764
• ISBN 13: 9781108468763
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 232
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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