For example, partial privatization of Social Security -- which Greenspan supports -- would impose "transition costs" in the trillions of dollars, easily taking care of the supposed problem of excessive budget surpluses.
Land was enclosed by a rising class of gentry, often unlawfully, in a process that very much resembles what is happening today with, for example, the privatization of Royal Mail.
For instance, an agreement signed with the IMF in 2000 contained 167 loan conditions that involved, for example, the privatization of potable waters systems, a new oil pipeline contract, layoffs of some public employees and wage cuts for others, and increases in the price of basic commodities like cooking oil [ 31].
Conversely, normative and sociological institutionalists explain the convergence of governance regimes across countries for example, privatization and the new public management reforms as a result of the legitimacy of those institutional forms.
Syriza could, for example, delay privatizations at a time when prices for state assets were unusually low, and uphold an election promise to raise state pensions and the minimum wage.
In fact, though there are clear examples of mainstream candidates implementing policies that they used to oppose to (for example market privatizations by Mitterand, tax increases by Reagan, and more recently, cutbacks by Hollande and, in Spain, by Zapatero), there is not so clear evidence of third parties doing so.
Hurricane Katrina set in motion, for example, a massive privatization of the New Orleans school system, hurting a generation of children of color.
For example, if privatized hospitals are systematically smaller than the control group of non-privatized hospitals and we assume that smaller hospitals are generally less efficient than larger hospitals, efficiency gains after privatization will be smaller than they would have been without selection by size, i.e. providing equal hospital sizes in both groups.
They are afraid that some aspects of the overall proposal -- competitive bidding for equipment, for example -- will lead to privatization.
The book has powerfully influenced the development of antigovernment ideology; Ryan, for example, has also advocated the privatization of Medicare.
