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The faith in market powers to fix what ails government is not only mistaken; in thousands of cases it is a central cause of “broken” government. This section describes a few examples.
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The U.S. Department of Justice recently moved to curtail some of the abuses (Editorial Board, New York Times 2016).
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In a forerunner to the 1990s changes, market “solutions” as procurement policy goes back to the Reagan era with its implementation of the “A-76” procurement doctrine, which itself goes back to the Eisenhower era.
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Bowman et al. (2014). The authors write principally about the UK, but their argument brilliantly captures the American reality too.
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Sekera, J.A. (2016). Case Examples: How Market Economics and Marketization Have Broken Government. In: The Public Economy in Crisis. SpringerBriefs in Economics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-40487-5_2
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