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Is Privatization a Solution to the Urban Crisis?

John Giraudo

May 8, 1992

For society to benefit from the deep-seated desire to fulfill human needs, it is the responsibility of government to unleash ownership and channel it to those needs - and to ensure that the profit motive is made to do what society most requires.

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The Privatization Project

From 1991-1994 the Carnegie Council initiated a major project to examine the global phenomenon of privatization. Council members and corporate leaders from the United States, Canada, Russia, Sweden, Eastern Europe, and South America participated in this enterprise. The Council distributed transcripts from the monthy seminars and conferences to over two thousand people in government, business, academe, labor, and the media.