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   From: ddfr@daviddfriedman.nopsam.com   
      
   In article ,   
    Anton  wrote:   
      
   > David Friedman kirjoitti:   
   > > In article   
   > > ,   
   > >  holman@mappi.helsinki.fi (Eugene Holman) wrote:   
   >   
   >   
   > > Yes. But the usual experience is that the socialist parts of capitalist   
   > > societies don't work very well. That's one reason there has been a swing   
   > > towards privatization in recent years.   
   >   
   > Hmmm... could it be in some cases just the opposite: privatization of   
   > public service didn't work out? British Railways, anyone?   
      
   ...   
      
   > Of course one could argue that stupid municipal authorities made a   
   > shitty deal,   
      
   One obvious problem is that "privatization" often means, not a shift to   
   a free market system with the actual consumers deciding what they want   
   to buy and what they are willing to pay, but only a shift to having a   
   government organization hire a private firm to do something for it--with   
   obvious possibilities for either incompetence or corruption the part of   
   the hirer.   
      
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