Third Thoughts on Contracting Out
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L i k e many libertarians, I used to accept without question the idea that contracting out for government services was a good idea. After all, it puts production back into the hands of relatively efficient private producers. However, after reviewing the literature o n contracting out for law enforcement services (Benson 1990, pp. 17999), I had some second thoughts, concluding that while contracting out might solve some problems of government inefficiency, other more serious problems would remain. Nonetheless, I continued to cling to the idea that contracting out was better than nothing, noting (pp. 195-96) that
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تاریخ انتشار 1999