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1	Creating Public Value: Strategic Management in Government more books like this by Mark H Moore add to wishlist A seminal figure in the field of public management, Mark Moore presents his summation of fifteen years of research, observation, and teaching about what public sector executives should do to improve the performance of public enterprises. Useful for both practicing public executives and those who teach them, this book explicates some of the richest ... see all copies from $19.45! new only from $36.00! \| SVS
2	Dependent Development: The Alliance of Multinational, State, and Local Capital in Brazil more books like this by Peter B Evans add to wishlist see all copies from $4.99! new only from $6.96! \| SVS
3	The Financial Economics of Privatization more books like this by William L Megginson add to wishlist Central to the book's content is its focus on where privatization stands today and what are the next frontiers, the why and how behind countries who privatize certain industries, whether privatization works as an economic tool and important insights relevant to financial institutions such as how to value privatized industries, how share offerings ... see all copies from $71.49! new only from $102.56!
4	Increasing Returns and Efficiency more books like this by Martine Quinzii add to wishlist Increasing returns to scale is an area in economics that is becoming more important in the literature. The economic phenomenon of increasing returns presents serious conceptual difficulties for the traditional competitive theory of resource allocation. While most firms exhibit constant or decreasing returns to scale, some firms manufacture ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
5	Forging Reform in China: The Fate of State-Owned Industry more books like this by Edward S Steinfeld, William Kirby (Editor) add to wishlist The greatest economic challenge facing China in the post-Deng era is the reform of unprofitable, state-owned enterprises that have never truly been forced to face the pressure of a bottom line or the threat of bankruptcy. Forging Reform in China explains how and why well-intentioned, market-oriented reform measures have not been sweepingly ... see all copies from $3.02! new only from $27.81! \| SVS
6	Institutions of Modern Spain: A Political and Economic Guide more books like this by Michael T Newton, Peter J Donaghy add to wishlist This book provides a comprehensive guide to Spain's major political and economic institutions, analysing their role, structure and functions, as well as their relationship to each other. Set against the background of Spain's consolidation as a young democratic nation and increasingly important contribution to EU affairs, the book examines the 1978 ... see all copies from $14.00! new only from $21.69! \| first editions \| SVS
7	Exposed to Innumerable Delusions: Public Enterprise and State Power in Egypt, India, Mexico, and Turkey more books like this by John Waterbury, Randall Calvert (Editor), Thrainn Eggertsson (Editor) add to wishlist The states of Egypt, India, Mexico and Turkey have all developed extensive public enterprise sectors and have sought to regulate most economic activities outside the state sector. Their experiences have been typical of scores of developing countries that followed similar paths of industrialisation. This study examines the origins of these state ... see all copies from $16.04! new only from $24.95! \| SVS
8	Industrial Reform and Macroeconomic Instability in China more books like this by Yak-Yeow Kueh (Editor), Joseph C H Chai (Editor), Gang Fan (Editor) add to wishlist Is the battle against inflation in China now over? Can Zhu Rongji, the economic guru turned Chinese premier who has successfully reduced the skyrocketing inflation of the mid-1990s to a near zero level, while yet maintaining high economic growth through the new millennium, relax? These are the key questions raised by China's current economic ... see all copies from $11.00! new only from $18.50! \| first editions \| SVS
9	Brazil's State-Owned Enterprises more books like this by Thomas J Trebat, Alan Knight (Editor) add to wishlist This book provides a systematic analysis of the performance of Brazil's large state-owned enterprises. The Brazilian economic system encourages private enterprise, but the government itself owns and operates such critical industries as petrochemicals, steel, electricity and telecommunications. The Brazilian state has assumed the role of an ... see all copies from $11.18! new only from $11.18! \| first editions \| SVS
10	Privatisation, Politics, & Economic Performance in Hungary more books like this by Zoltan Antal-Mokos add to wishlist Why do some privatisations apparently fail to produce expected positive results? Economic theory tells us that privatisation should improve efficiency, but this book suggests that political bargaining in the process of privatisation works against the results we expect to achieve. To gain a better understanding of what privatisation is really about ... see all copies from $6.98! new only from $85.04! \| first editions
11 view cover	Market-Based Governance: Supply Side, Demand Side, Upside, and Downside more books like this by John D Donahue (Editor), Joseph S Nye, Jr. (Editor) add to wishlist This volume examines the use of market means to pursue public goals. "Market-based governance" includes both the delegation of traditionally governmental functions to private players, and the importation into government of market-style management approaches and mechanisms of accountability. The demand side section deals with forms of interaction ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $11.95! \| first editions
12 view cover	From Parastatals to Private Trade: Lessons from Asian Agriculture more books like this by Ashok Gulati (Editor), Shahidur Rashid (Editor), Ralph Cummings, Jr. (Editor) add to wishlist In developing countries across Asia, food marketing parastatals have played an important role in agricultural policy, especially with regard to government efforts to stabilize food prices. Three broad market failures constitute the primary arguments for this form of government intervention: a lack of market integration stemming from inadequate ... see all copies from $19.00! new only from $38.65!
13 view cover	Market Communism: The Institutional Foundation of China's Post-Mao Hyper-Growth more books like this by Lance Gore add to wishlist This book examines China's economic success against the backdrop of a communist system, and the pivotal role of state-owned enterprises. It argues that China's experience cannot be compared with others' in East Asia because of its planned economy. The book explains the role of the "bureaucratic entrepreneurs" (government officials doing business) ... see all copies from $14.00! new only from $149.84! \| first editions
14 view cover	Business Decision Making in China more books like this by Huang Quanyu, PhD, Chen Tong, MS, Mgs, Joseph W Leonard, PhD add to wishlist Knowledgeable decision making not only saves you time, money, and effort, but also leads you to extra opportunities. Business Decision Making in China improves your business acumen by showing you who (in itals) is involved in business decision making, how (in itals) decisions have been made, what (in itals) the characteristics and strategies of ... see all copies from $3.06! new only from $21.84!
15 view cover	Transformational Leadership in Government more books like this by Jerry W Koehler, Joseph M Pankowski add to wishlist This book is your guide to becoming an empowerment leader. Its purpose: to redirect and re-energize leadership in government.If you are involved in any form of government leadership, this new publication will show you exactly how to develop and implement the principles of empowerment and improve quality.Transformational Leadership in Government is ... see all copies from $9.40! new only from $45.00! \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	Managing Public Services: Implementing Changes - A Thoughtful Approach more books like this by Tony Doherty, Perry Horne add to wishlist Focusing on change as a constant factor in the management of any organization, this informative book helps the student and practitioner to develop the skills and knowledge they require to underpin the work of a modern service manager in rapidly-changing public sector organizations - whether publicly owned, privately managed or sub-contracted ... see all copies from $31.92! new only from $59.59!
17 view cover	The Political Economy of Public Administration: Institutional Choice in the Public Sector more books like this by Murray J Horn add to wishlist This book applies the basic ideas and models of economics to develop a single transactions framework to explain the key institutional arrangements across the whole range of public sector organization: the regulatory commission, the executive tax-financed bureau, and the state-owned enterprise. This book also explores the link between agency form ... see all copies from $15.27! new only from $33.21! \| SVS
18 view cover	The Grabbing Hand: Government Pathologies and Their Cures more books like this by Andrei Shleifer, Robert W Vishny add to wishlist In many countries, public sector institutions impose heavy burdens on economic life: heavy and arbitrary taxes retard investment; regulations enrich corrupt bureaucrats; state firms consume national wealth; and the most talented people turn to rent-seeking rather than productive activities. As a consequence of such predatory policies, ... see all copies from $14.88! new only from $26.44! \| SVS
19 view cover	The Rise and Fall of State-Owned Enterprise in the Western World more books like this by Pier Angelo Toninelli (Editor) add to wishlist This book examines the rise and fall in the twentieth-century Western world of state-owned enterprises, a chief instrument of state economic intervention. It offers historical perspective on the origins and purpose of state-owned enterprises, their performance, and the reasons for their precipitate decline from their heyday in the 1960s to the ... see all copies from $37.17! new only from $38.62! \| SVS
20 view cover	Privatization or Public Enterprise Reform?: International Case Studies with Implications for Public Management more books like this by Dr. Ali Farazmand add to wishlist An analysis of privatization worldwide, offering policy suggestions. It includes material of an analytical, empirical and case study nature on the theory and practice of privatization, its relationship with the globalization of capital, and its political, social and economic consequences. see all copies from $57.17! new only from $111.00! \| first editions
21 view cover	Unfair Competition: The Profits of Nonprofits more books like this by James T Bennett, Thomas J Dilorenzo (Editor) add to wishlist 32.95 see all copies from $5.51! new only from $36.66! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	Chinese State Enterprises: A Regional Property Rights Analysis more books like this by David Granick add to wishlist An empirically documented study of the Chinese state industrial enterprise. see all copies from $3.55! new only from $60.00! \| first editions
23 view cover	Transforming the Core: Restructuring Industrial Enterprises in Russia and Central Europe more books like this by Professor Paul Marer, Michael L Alexeev, Maurice Ernst add to wishlist Large state industry, the "hard core" of the communist economic system, has been the principal obstacle in the transition to a market economy. Even in countries that have freed prices, opened up their economies to foreign trade and investment, and fostered private enterprise, much of the heavy industry has remained state-controlled, overstaffed ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| SVS
24	Public enterprise: selected readings more books like this by Ralph Turvey (Compiled by) add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! first editions \| SVS
25	Privatization and Control of State-Owned Enterprises more books like this by Ravi Ramamurti add to wishlist see all copies from $2.37! new only from $20.00! \| SVS

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