The Privatization of Everything

How the Plunder of Public Goods Transformed America and How We Can Fight Back

De: Donald Cohen, Allen Mikaelian

Narrado por: Brian P. Craig

As people reach for social justice and better lives, they create public goods that must be kept out of the market. When private interests take over, they strip public goods of their power to lift people up, creating instead a tool to diminish democracy, further inequality, and separate us from each other.

The Privatization of Everything, by the founder of In the Public Interest, chronicles the efforts to turn our public goods into private profit centers. Ever since Ronald Reagan labeled government a dangerous threat, privatization has touched every aspect of our lives.

However, citizens can, and are, wresting back what is ours. A Montana city took back its water infrastructure after finding that they could do it better and cheaper. A motivated lawyer fought all the way to the Supreme Court after the State of Georgia erected privatized paywalls around its legal code.

The Privatization of Everything connects the dots across a broad spectrum of issues and raises larger questions about who controls the public things we all rely on, exposing the hidden crisis of privatization that has been slowly unfolding over the last fifty years and giving us a road map for taking our country back.

©2021 Donald Cohen and Allen Mikaelian (P)2022 Tantor

Important and timely

For those of us who have grown both skeptical and often cynical about the so-called benefits of tue privatization of public good this book is a revelation. Well researched, well argued with many valuable insights.

A brilliant analysis

This is an exceptional well researched expose of the corporate take over of our public goods.