Uncle Sam's Private Profitseeking Corporations: Comsat, Fannie Mae, Amtrak, and Conrail

by Lloyd D Musolf

The idea for this book came from a wish to know more about the uncharted area between the U.S. federal government and the private sector. The institutions that best symbolize the clash between the respective mind-sets of government and business are the handful of government-sponsored enterprises that official documents described as private and profitseeking. By attempting to deal only with their relation to policymakers and not with their technical operations, it is possible to grasp the idea of privateness and profitseeking as employed in a quasigovernmental setting How would policymakers operation in a society that gives so much prominence to business ideas grapple with these concepts? 1. The Private-for-Profits and Public Policy; 2. A Beguiling Beginning; 3. Fannie Independent or Chaperoned Lady?; 4. The Perils of Poverty; 5. Poverty Revisited and Rebuffed.

126 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1983