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Start giftingThe Privatization of Everything
How the Plunder of Public Goods Transformed America and How We Can Fight Back
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Brian P. Craig
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Length
12 hours 16 minutes
Language
English
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.
Donald Cohen is the founder and executive director of In the Public Interest, an Oakland, California-based national resource and policy center on privatization and responsible contracting. His opinion pieces and articles have appeared in the New York Times, Reuters, Los Angeles Times, and the New Republic, among others. The coauthor (with Allen Mikaelian) of The Privatization of Everything (The New Press), he lives in Los Angeles.
Allen Mikaelian is an editor and the bestselling author, with Mike Wallace, of Medal of Honor. The coauthor (with Donald Cohen) of The Privatization of Everything (The New Press), he lives in Washington, DC.
From his home studio on the Jersey Shore, Brian P. Craig uses his voice in a number of contexts to help his clients make a lasting connection with their audiences. Audiobooks are his favorite type of project, and his work has included a novel about a father dealing with his son's severe autism, a commentary on dealing with China in the Xi Jinping era, and scholarship on the depiction of the state in the Bible.