This article seeks to interrogate the assumptions underlying this hypothesis of private sector as a key vehicle for change.
Nationalization, alteration or assumption of control or ownership of private property by the state.
In the political economy that underlies the assumption of "shared values," the private sector actively brands innovations as humanitarian with the CSR implication that the company standing behind the innovations is also humanitarian.
This paper makes the counterfactual assumption that private ownership of cars was severely restricted at the start of the twentieth century, and uses a range of historical data to examine the ways in which such a scenario might have impacted on transport infrastructure, personal mobility and urban life.
But frankly, I'm tired of the assumption that taking your child out of private school (feeling the recession, anyone?), or starting them in public, is like throwing your baby to the jackals.
If the Postal Service will need to pay $20 billion in pensions in 30 years, it would have to put aside roughly $2 billion this year using the rate of return assumption that private pensions had traditionally used.
Traditionally, scholars of urban development have focused almost exclusively on the behaviour of private landowners, on the assumption that private developers invariably dominate urban politics and governance.
But what happens when the bloodshed is not where it is supposed to be, where generations have constructed an assumption of tranquility, believing that their private worlds offer them an enduring haven?
The point here is that the assumption of compatibility and coherence between private sector, profit-oriented business models, and humanitarian action in itself does work that needs to be interrogated.
This assumption proves crucial to their results that transmission of private information is an equilibrium in this case.
