
Destroying Democracy Is Central to the Privatization of Public Goods
The obsession with privatization isn’t just about turning public goods into profit generators for a small handful of wealthy people. It’s also about trampling on democracy.
Donald Cohen is the founder and executive director of In the Public Interest, a national research and policy center based in Oakland, California, that studies public goods and services. He lives in Los Angeles.
The obsession with privatization isn’t just about turning public goods into profit generators for a small handful of wealthy people. It’s also about trampling on democracy.