Paul Starr on Privatization

Book excerpt "Public Versus Private" from Chapter 3 of Freedom's Power, 53-58.

Articles

• "Why We Need Social Security," The American Prospect (February 2005).
  
• "Liberalism After Socialism," The American Prospect, no. 7 (Fall 1991), 70-80.
• "Can Government Work?" The American Prospect, no. 2 (Summer 1990); reprinted in John F. Sears, ed., Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Future of Liberalism (Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute/Meckler, 1991), 95-108.
• "The New Life of the Liberal State: Privatization and the Restructuring of State-Society Relations" in John Waterbury and Ezra Suleiman, eds., Public Enterprise and Privatization (Westview, 1990), 22-54.
• "Privatization: The Case for Skepticism," in William Gormley, ed., Privatization and its Alternatives (University of Wisconsin Press, 1990).
• “The Meaning of Privatization," Yale Law and Policy Review 6 (1988): 6-41. Reprinted in Alfred Kahn and Sheila Kamerman, eds., Privatization and the Welfare State (Princeton University Press, 1989). Belorussian translation
• "Social Security and the American Public Household," in Theodore Marmor and Jerry L. Mashaw, eds., Social Security: Beyond the Rhetoric of Crisis (Princeton University Press, 1988).
• "The Limits of Privatization," in Steve Hanke, ed., Prospects for Privatization (Academy of Political Science, 1987). Reprinted in Dennis J. Gayle and Jonathan N. Goodrich, Privatization and Deregulation in Global Perspective (Quorum, 1990). Reprinted in a revised and expanded form as a report of the Economic Policy Institute, Washington, D.C, 1988.
• "Health Care and the Boundaries of Politics," with Ellen Immergut, in Charles Maier, ed., The Changing Boundaries of the Political (Cambridge University Press, 1987).
• "Who Will Have the Numbers? The Rise of the Statistical Services Industry and the Politics of Public Data," with Ross Corson, in Alonso and Starr, eds., The Politics of Numbers.
• "Passive Intervention," Working Papers for a New Society, July/August, 1979, with Gosta Esping-Andersen.
• "Politics Against Government," The New Republic, December 27, 1975.

Congressional Testimony