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Place Matters Somewhat, But Social Class Matters Even More  

Elliot Sclar ▪ Spring 2002

Place Matters: Metropolitics for the Twenty-first Century by Peter Dreier, John Mollenkopf, and Todd Swanstrom University Press of Kansas, 2001, 349 pp., $15.95 Here is a simple but important fact: approximately three-quarters of Americans live in metropolitan areas. Of these, …



Public Service Privitization: Ideology or Economics?  

Elliot Sclar ▪ Summer 1994

In a February 1993 New York Times op-ed article, a municipal bond analyst for a major security rating service argued that the cure for New York City’s fiscal problems was to force it into bankruptcy and then to massively privatize …



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