By services I mean sanitation, public health, public assistance, law enforcement, utilities, etc. You can work on this without delving into finance, though some finance would help to understand some of the creative stuff being done with "public-private partnerships" (e.g., privatizing public facilities).
I don't know the UT program. I would look for scholarship I liked, then migrate to the places where the people who do it are ensconced and hope they will stick around there long enough for you to benefit from them. On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 11:46 AM, Bill Lear <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
