Michael Likosky

Obama's Bank

Financing a Durable New Deal

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book describes the Obama administration's plan to partner with the private sector to produce public goods.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 392
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. September 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 658g
• ISBN-13: 9780521197540
• ISBN-10: 0521197546
• Artikelnr.: 26552726

Autorenporträt

Michael Likosky is a Fellow at NYU's Institute for Public Knowledge and the Center for State Innovation. He is an expert to the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, a member the OECD's Working Group on Infrastructure and Extractives in Africa, and also a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers Task Force on Sustainable Development. Likosky has a doctorate from the Law Faculty of Oxford University and has been a tenured law professor at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. He has also been Global Crystal Eastman Research Fellow at NYU and Markle Foundation Fellow at Oxford University and held visiting posts at University of Wisconsin Law School, Fordham Law School, and University of Bonn. Likosky has published four books: Law, Infrastructure, and Human Rights; The Silicon Empire; Privatizing Development; and Transnational Legal Processes. He has twice contributed to the Oxford Amnesty Lectures and has advised the United Nations, the Ford Foundation, the New Reflection on Governance, NGOs, and major TV broadcasters.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. The Janesville plan
3. A bank of our own
4. Leverage
5. Free market statism
6. A new foundation
7. P3s and foreign affairs
8. Companies as policy organs
9. Transparency
10. Contracts
11. Emancipation
12. Renegotiations
13. Recommendations.

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1. Introduction; 2. The Janesville plan; 3. A bank of our own; 4. Leverage; 5. Free market statism; 6. A new foundation; 7. P3s and foreign affairs; 8. Companies as policy organs; 9. Transparency; 10. Contracts; 11. Emancipation; 12. Renegotiations; 13. Recommendations.

Rezensionen

"Drawing on his deep understanding and wide-ranging experiences with public-private partnerships, Michael Likosky's book provides essential insight on how to structure a national infrastructure bank effectively, in a way that maintains the public interest, keeps America competitive in the 21st century global economy, and provides the critical investments needed to rebuild our nation."
- U.S. Representative Rosa L. DeLauro (Connecticut)