Capital Concepts as Insights into the Maintenance and Neglect of Infrastructure.
The writer discusses why government fails to maintain the components of of “public infrastructure” once they are in existence. Publicly owned infrastructure, including roads, bridges, water and sewage systems, streets, and schools, is often neglected in comparison to privately owned infrastructure....
| Publicado en: | Independent Review Vol. 15; no. 1; pp. 35 - 52 |
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Independent Institute
Summer 2010
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