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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS:

Government by Contract: Edited by Jody Freeman; Edited by Martha Minow; Explains the phenomenon and scope of government outsourcing and sets an agenda for future research attentive to workforce capacities as well as legal, economic, and political concerns.; Hardcover February 2009

The Warping of Government Work: John D. Donahue; The divergent paths of public and private employment have intensified a long-standing pattern: elite workers spurn public jobs, while less skilled workers cling to government work as a refuge from a harsh private economy. The Warping of Government Work documents government’s isolation from the rest of the American economy and arrays the stark choices we confront for narrowing, or accommodating, the divide between public and private work.; Hardcover May 2008