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THE PRIVATIZATION OF
DONALD COHEN & ALLEN MIKAELIAN
THE PRIVATIZATION OF
EVERYTHING
AND HOW WE CAN FIGHT BACK
HOW THE PLUNDER OF PUBLIC GOODS TRANSFORMED AMERICA
DONALD COHEN
ALLEN MIK AELIAN
Contents
Part I. Understanding Privatization
1. Public Goods for the Common Good
2. The Roots and Reasons of Privatization: A Very Brief
History
Part II. Public Goods for Life: The Dangers of
Privatizing Public Health, Water, and Food Safety
3. Privatizing Public Health Makes Us Sick: An
Epidemic of Market Failures
4. “They Just Have to Pay”: Privatizing the Public’s
Water Supply
5. The Stuff of Life: Reclaiming Public Water
Part III. The Public Gets Us There: Transportation,
Communication, and Economies That Work for All
6. Economic Destiny and the Pitfalls of the Public-
Private Partnership
7. Toll Roads at America’s Crossroads
8. Who Owns the Journey? Recentering the Public
Part IV. Privatization’s Slow Coup: The Undermining
of Democracy and Justice
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9. When the Contract Is King: How Privatization Trumps
Democracy
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10. Democracy in Darkness: Privatization’s Shadow over
Transparency
11. Skin in the Game: Environmental and Planning Policy
in Privatization’s Grip
12. Freedom Has a Price: Privatization’s Assault on the
Justice System
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CON TEN T S
Part V. Every Last Dime: Shredding the Social Safety
Net, Generating Inequality
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13. Teaching Them a Lesson: Privatization Versus the Poor 159
14. Privatized Medicaid and the Business of Denying Care 167
15. What’s in It for Wall Street: Public Assistance in the
Hands of Big Finance
16. Privatizing Pays Us Less
Part VI. Things in Common: Privatization
and the Erosion of Community
17. Public Places: Parks, Presidents, and Privatization
18. School Choice and Resegregation
19. Public Libraries and Apple Pie
20. Communities Take Care: How Social Security
Defines Us
Part VII. Privatization Doesn’t Want You to Know: The
Corruption of Public Education
21. School Choice and Competition: When Creative
Destruction Is Just Destruction
22. Higher Education: Who Fills the Void?
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Part VIII. “The Cash Just Pours Out”: The Privatization
of Public Science and Research
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23. Academic Publishing: How to Pay for Knowledge
Three Times Over
24. They Even Want to Own the Weather
25. Drug Prices and the Pirates of the Patent System
Part IX. Becoming Pro-Public
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index
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Part I
UNDERSTANDING PRIVATIZATION

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