Rethinking Municipal Privatization
| By: | Oliver D. Cooke |
| Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
| Print ISBN: | 9780415543118 |
| eText ISBN: | 9781135897901 |
| Edition: | 1 |
| Copyright: | 2008 |
| Format: | Reflowable |
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This book examines one of the most high-profile municipal privatizations the privatization of New York City‘s Central Park. The fiscal crisis of the 1970s established the political and cultural opening for privatizations, which were justified on the basis of increasing efficiency. However, as Cooke demonstrates, these justifications were deliberate