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In the 1980s and '90s, many countries turned to the private sector to provide infrastructure and utilities, with the idea that market-based incentives would control costs and improve the quality of essential services. But subsequent debacles raised troubling questions about privatization. This book addresses one of the most vexing of these.

Over the past two decades Americans have become increasingly skeptical about the benefits of community growth and hostile to new taxes--while continuing to demand improvements in local services.