Privatization of assets that most of us consider public…

No city embraced privatization more eagerly than Chicago, where I live.

— Bethany McLean

The big banks advise cities about whether privatization is a wise choice. They also control the ability of states and cities to access the…

— Bethany McLean

Proponents of privatization argued that cities and states needed private capital to fund all the upgrades that our decaying infrastructure so desperately needed.

— Bethany McLean

“Hence, contrary to the conclusion arrived at by the public goods theorists, logic forces one to accept the result that only a pure market…

— Hans-Hermann Hoppe

If you think of global public goods like polio eradication, the kind of risk-taking new approach, philanthropy really does have a role to play…

— Bill Gates

In effective, sustained citizen action, people learn the skills of public life with which to act effectively. "Commons," or the common wealth-the public goods…

— Harry Boyte

Classic economic theories recognize public goods aspects of one kind or another - the need for economic intervention in, obviously, the supply of infrastructure…

— Kenneth Arrow

“China should significantly augment the foreign aid and public goods it provides, so it can use these as a bargaining chip in its efforts…

— Wang Yizhou

I believe, unlike people that are totally free-market, laissez-faire fundamentalists, that there is an important role that the government can play - one, in…

— Nouriel Roubini

I think that markets classically fail in cases where there are public goods that provide benefits that people cannot capture. The big debate is…

— Peter Thiel

One of the gaps in our international development efforts is the provision of global public goods - that is, goods or conditions we need…

— Anna Lindh

What is a government supposed to do for its people? To improve the standard of living, to help them get jobs, get kids to…

— Mo Ibrahim

Care work produces public goods, and should be supported in families by policies such as paid parental leave and caregiver tax credits, and by…

— Riane Eisler

If one sentence were to sum up the mechanism driving the Great Stagnation, it is this: Recent and current innovation is more geared to…

— Tyler Cowen

The change in economic values created by the new markets for global public goods will reorient our global economy and under the right conditions…

— Graciela Chichilnisky