privatizers
Government ownership enders
Privatizers are people or entities that transfer public assets or services to private ownership.
The term often carries a critical edge, used by those who oppose such transfers: The privatizers want to dismantle public education.
More neutrally, it describes advocates or implementers of privatization policy: The privatizers argued that competition would improve efficiency.
Pro-market, anti-regulation ideology
- free-marketUnregulated private exchange
- capitalismPrivate profit-based economy
- laissez-faireNoninterference in commerce
- deregulationRemoving governmental business restrictions
individualism · austerity · monetarism · supply-side · Thatcherism · Reaganomics · libertarianism · marketization
Those who commit capital
- shareholdersOwners of company stock
- entrepreneursThose who launch ventures
- consultantsExperts hired for guidance
- lobbyistsPaid political persuaders
think-tanks · financiers · corporations · oligarchs · tycoons · conglomerates · speculators · developers
Third-party task delegation
- divestitureDisposal of assets
- corporatizationRestructuring as a corporation
- unbundlingSeparating combined offerings individually
- sell-offsMass rapid asset disposals
concessions · franchising · liquidation · transfer · demutualization · spin-off · liberalization · commercialization
One seller, no substitutes
- profiteeringExploiting scarcity for gain
- inequalityUnequal distribution of resources
- corporatizationRestructuring as a corporation
- cronyismFavoring friends in appointments
cherry-picking · accountability · transparency · corruption · exploitation · commodification · underfunding
Essential infrastructure services
- railwaysFixed-track transport systems
- telecommunicationsRemote signal transmission technology
- healthcareOrganized provision of treatment
- prisonsDetention facilities for criminals
education · water · energy · airports · housing · infrastructure · transit · pensions
neoliberalism
Pro-market, anti-regulation ideology
- free-marketUnregulated private exchange
- capitalismPrivate profit-based economy
- laissez-faireNoninterference in commerce
deregulation · individualism · austerity · monetarism · supply-side · Thatcherism · Reaganomics · libertarianism · marketization
investors
Those who commit capital
- shareholdersOwners of company stock
- entrepreneursThose who launch ventures
- consultantsExperts hired for guidance
lobbyists · think-tanks · financiers · corporations · oligarchs · tycoons · conglomerates · speculators · developers · profiteers
outsourcing
Third-party task delegation
- divestitureDisposal of assets
- corporatizationRestructuring as a corporation
- unbundlingSeparating combined offerings individually
sell-offs · concessions · franchising · liquidation · transfer · demutualization · spin-off · liberalization · commercialization · tendering
monopoly
One seller, no substitutes
- profiteeringExploiting scarcity for gain
- inequalityUnequal distribution of resources
- corporatizationRestructuring as a corporation
cronyism · cherry-picking · accountability · transparency · corruption · exploitation · commodification · underfunding
utilities
Essential infrastructure services
- railwaysFixed-track transport systems
- telecommunicationsRemote signal transmission technology
- healthcareOrganized provision of treatment
prisons · education · water · energy · airports · housing · infrastructure · transit · pensions
- free marketersAdam Smith, Milton Friedman, Ayn Rand, free traders, laissez-faire
- reformersreformers, reformer, social reformers, social reformer, political reformer