Public Enterprise: Retrospective Review and Prospective Theory

Most of the literature on public enterprise seeks to set forth rules to govern their creation and their pricing. This chapter starts by describing the contours of this literature, but gives the bulk of its attention to exploring the potential contributions that public choice theorizing might make to our understanding of the actual conduct of public enterprises, conduct that often varies from what the normative literature prescribes.

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