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Topics › Privatization › Local Government

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September 1, 2003

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Geoffrey Segal is the director of privatization and government reform at Reason Foundation, a nonprofit think tank advancing free minds and free markets. He is also editor of Reason's Privatization Watch.

Adrian Moore, Ph.D., is the Chief Economist at Reason Foundation.

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