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- Title
Shifting Boundaries between the Public and Private Sectors: Implications from the Economic Crisis.
- Authors
Moulton, Stephanie; Wise, Charles
- Abstract
What are the differences between the public and private sectors as well as their interrelationships in light of the recent financial crisis? Has the global economic crisis fundamentally shifted the boundaries between the two sectors? This essay examines the nature and extent of the shift. The authors present an analysis of the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) to highlight the massive transformations that are taking place and to introduce lessons for future policy initiatives. Between financial rescue missions and the economic stimulus program, government spending accounts for a bigger share of the nation’s economy—26 percent—than at any time since World War II. The government is financing 9 out of 10 new mortgages in the United States. If you buy a car from General Motors, you are buying from a company that is 60 percent owned by the government. If you take out a car loan or run up your credit card, the chances are good that the government is financing both your debt and that of your bank. —Edmund Andrews and David Sanger, New York Times, 2009
- Subjects
UNITED States; PUBLIC sector; PRIVATE sector; FINANCIAL crises; TROUBLED Asset Relief Program (U.S.); PUBLIC spending; PUBLIC administration research; GOVERNMENT policy
- Publication
Public Administration Review, 2010, Vol 70, Issue 3, p349
- ISSN
0033-3352
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1540-6210.2010.02149.x