Case Examples: How Market Economics and Marketization Have Broken Government
The faith in market powers to fix what ails government is not only mistaken; in thousands of cases it is a central cause of “broken” government. This section describes a few examples.
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June A. Sekera Global Development and Environment Institute Tufts University Somerville, MA USA
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Acknowledgements
This book would never have happened were it not for opportunities opened for me by a series of people. After reading my working paper on economics and the public economy, Charles Hall, a pioneer in the emerging field of biophysical economics, identified me as a kindred spirit; it was he who suggested that the paper could be the basis for a book and introduced me to Springer. That working paper itself would never have happened were it not for Neva Goodwin, the courageous economist who was first to comprehend my argument and vision, and who could see its connection to her pathbreaking work on the “core economy.” And nothing would have happened at all were it not for Hillel Schwartz, who inspired me to take up the challenge of writing about what I know, and whose rhetorical and editorial talents immensely improved upon my too-often pedestrian prose. I also thank Michael Bernstein for putting me in touch with Edward Fullbrook, who provided the initial platform for my early consideration of public goods. Subsequently, I have been fortunate to have had the intellectual support of Jonathan Harris, Victoria Chick, Merijn Knibbe, and Kent Klitgaard, from whose insights I continu
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