On Monday, April 27, 2009 at 10:41:17 (-0400) Max Sawicky writes: >Re: comparing efficiency of public v private institutions, if you are >talking about service provision, you don't want a degree in econ or >finance. You want to do public administration with Donald Kettl (U of >P), Gene Bardach (Berkeley), or John Donahue (Kennedy School/Harvard). > >I can't speak on finance.
I'm not sure I quite understand "service provision" --- you mean simply providing services versus actually producing material goods? I'm actually interested in building a model that compares both. I guess I'm interested in "what's so bad about socialism" from a classical economics approach (plus more). Would Public Affairs at U. Texas Austin (Jamie Galbraith) fit this? I really want to know how financial markets work, in detail, because I feel you can't look at economics of public/private enterprise without looking at finance, especially today (last 50 years?). I want to know how international institutions work as well. And, how private and public institutions interact (for example, how the Fed/Treasury work to pump money in to the system), leading to questions like how or why public control is or is not the best way to do this. Bill _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
