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Competition isn’t always better than co-operation, and big isn’t always beautiful

The Golcar Circular

Paul Salveson
03 May 2013
 

IT?HAS been drilled into all of us that competition is ‘a good thing’. Local authorities have to put most things out to tender these days and the neo-liberal consensus of the last 30 years is that this is the best way to get ‘value for money’ in public services. Funny how our railways cost three times as much to run now as they did under British Rail, but maybe that’s just the ‘old Labour’ mentality in me coming out. And isn’t it odd that bus...

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