"This book explores the intellectual history, nature, and consequences of commodification. While many use the term commodification, few realize that it was only introduced in the 1970s by Marxist scholars in Britain and the US. However, while Marxists initially used commodification to challenge...

Public services throughout Europe have undergone dramatic restructuring processes in recent years in connection with liberalization and privatization. While evaluations of the successes of public services have focused on prices and efficiency, much less attention has been paid to the impacts of...