The privatization of everything: how the plunder of public goods transformed America and how we can fight back

Part I. Understanding privatization. Public goods for the common good

The roots and reasons of privatization: A very brief history

Part II. Public goods for life: the dangers of privatizing public health, water, and food safety. Privatizing public health makes us sick: an epidemic of market failures

"They just have to pay": privatizing the public's water supply

The stuff of life: reclaiming public water

Part III. The public gets us there: transportation, communication, and economies that work for all. Economic destiny and the pitfalls of the public-private partnership

Toll roads at America's crossroads

Who owns the journey? recentering the public

Part IV. Privatization's slow coup: the undermining of democracy and justice. When the contract is king: how privatization trumps democracy

Democracy in darkness: privatization's shadow over transparency

Skin in the game: environmental and planning policy in privatization's grip

Freedom has a price: privatization's assault on the justice system

Part V. Every last dime: shredding the social safety net, generating inequality. Teaching them a lesson: privatization versus the poor

Privatized Medicaid and the business of denying care

What's in it for Wall Street: public assistance in the hands of big finance

Privatizing pays us less

Part VI. Things in common: privatization and the erosion of community. Public places: parks, presidents, and privatization

School choice and resegregation

Public libraries and apple pie

Communities take care: how Social Secutity defines us

Part VII. Privatization doesn't want you to know: the corruption of public education. School choice and competition: when creative destruction is just destruction

Higher education: who fills the void?

Part VIII. "The cash just pours out": the privatization of public science and research. Academic publishing: how to pay for knowledge three times over

They even want to own the weather

Drug prices and the pirates of the patent system

Part IX. Becoming pro-public.