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Written by the EPSU, from the last page: EPSU is the European Federation of Public Service Unions. It is the largest federation of the ETUC and comprises 8 mil

by ah- 12y ago

Written by the EPSU, from the last page: EPSU is the European Federation of Public Service Unions. It is the largest federation of the ETUC and comprises 8 million public service workers from over 275 trade unions; EPSU organises workers in the energy, water and waste sectors, health and social services and local and national administration, in all European countries including in the EU’s Eastern Neighbourhood.

bildung 12y ago
Well sure, I'd be surprised if the Cato Institute would have published that ;) It apparently is just a publication covering the results of several meta-analytical studies, EPSU neither did studies themselves nor seemed to have been involved in those mentioned in the publication. The real content starts at page 7. edit:typo
- bjterry 12y ago
  The problem is that because of their obvious bias, we can have no assurance that they are accurately surveying all of the available meta-analyses, and that they are properly representing the information and its level of certainty.
  - bakhy 12y ago
    That is true, but one should still give it a read, instead of dismissing it as lies just because it was commissioned by a union. Some pretty interesting stuff is included, from very interesting sources, pretty certainly not pro-worker biased. And ultimately, if public-private partnerships, privatizations and the like were consistently good, it would be a struggle to find studies that do not corroborate this. Here we have a tonne of studies from various sources, none finding these fabled results.
bakhy 12y ago
"Moreover, many of these studies have been carried out by economists expecting to confirm a theoretical argument that privatisation is intrinsically more efficient, which makes the results more striking. The evidence contradicts the assumptions." (p. 6)

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Written by the EPSU, from the last page: EPSU is the European Federation of Public Service Unions. It is the largest federation of the ETUC and comprises 8 mil

by ah- 12y ago

bildung 12y ago
Well sure, I'd be surprised if the Cato Institute would have published that ;) It apparently is just a publication covering the results of several meta-analytical studies, EPSU neither did studies themselves nor seemed to have been involved in those mentioned in the publication. The real content starts at page 7. edit:typo
- bjterry 12y ago
  The problem is that because of their obvious bias, we can have no assurance that they are accurately surveying all of the available meta-analyses, and that they are properly representing the information and its level of certainty.
  - bakhy 12y ago
    That is true, but one should still give it a read, instead of dismissing it as lies just because it was commissioned by a union. Some pretty interesting stuff is included, from very interesting sources, pretty certainly not pro-worker biased. And ultimately, if public-private partnerships, privatizations and the like were consistently good, it would be a struggle to find studies that do not corroborate this. Here we have a tonne of studies from various sources, none finding these fabled results.
bakhy 12y ago
"Moreover, many of these studies have been carried out by economists expecting to confirm a theoretical argument that privatisation is intrinsically more efficient, which makes the results more striking. The evidence contradicts the assumptions." (p. 6)