Exposed to Innumerable Delusions Public Enterprise and State Power in Egypt, India, Mexico, and Turkey

Name: Exposed to Innumerable Delusions Public Enterprise and State Power in Egypt, India, Mexico, and Turkey
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ISBN: 9780521435499

ISBN-10: 0521435498

ISBN-13: 9780521435499

Edition: 1993

Authors: John Waterbury, Randall Calvert, Thrainn Eggertsson

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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 industrialization. This study examines the origins of these state sectors, the dynamics of their growth and crises, and the efforts to reform or liquidate them. It is argued that public ownership creates its own culture and pathology that are similar across otherwise different systems. The logic of principal-agent relations under public ownership is so powerful that it swamps culture and peculiar institutional…

Book details

List price: $54.99
Copyright year: 1993
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 9/24/1993
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 368
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English



Preface



Introduction: property and change



The will to transform



Strategies and policies of industrialization



Bald comparisons



Principals and agents: the characteristics of public enterprise performance



Reform and divestiture



Managerial careers and interests



The coalitional basis of state sectors



The public-private symbiosis



Public enterprise and organised labor



Conclusion


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