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Privatization and the Public Good?

December 4, 2002

Martha Minow professor, Harvard Law School

Mark Moore professor, JFK School of Government, Harvard

Martha Minow, Harvard Law School professor, discusses her book, Partners, Not Rivals: Privatization and the Public Good, and explores what happens when private companies, nonprofit agencies, and religious groups, instead of government, manage education, criminal justice, legal services, and welfare programs. She is joined by John F. Kennedy School of Government faculty member Mark Moore, director of the Hauser Center for Non-Profit Organizations, and the Daniel and Florence Guggenheim Professor of Criminal Justice Policy and Public Management. Gary Orfield, Harvard Graduate School of Education, professor of education and social policy, introduces these distinguished guests.

This event was co-sponsored by the Harvard Children's Initiative.

Topics: Culture & Identity | Education

Tags: politics | religion | social policy | United States | Non-Profit | Education

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