If fire services are a private good, how did they come to be provided by governments?
As a private good, human capital increases personal income, household wealth, family stability, and healthiness.
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As a jointly public and private good, human capital accumulation drives industrial productivity and workforce quality.
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Nor should it deny a future employer the possibility of developing the private good from which both it and the employee can extract value.
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One could argue that we need governments to provide public goods, which are goods for which provision for one means provision for all with an extreme difficulty excluding non-payers, but the recent Tennessee fire shows that fire protection, at least in rural areas, is a private good.
The overall message of the panel: private equity is in good shape and many of the attacks on what private equity does are off base.
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Human capital can appreciate and depreciate, and is both a private and public good.
More and more investors crave these new opportunities to put their private capital to good social use.
Since he did well in primary school, she was keen to place him in a good private middle-school.
Rich children often attend good private schools (and thence may go on, as in Brazil, to benefit disproportionately from subsidised public universities).
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As at any private club, good behavior by guests is expected, with the future possibility of not being a guest unspoken but clear.
It balances a private ledger of good fortune and bad fortune.
With additional resources, in areas like advanced manufacturing of wind turbines and solar panels, for instance, we can help turn good ideas into good private sector jobs.
While figures for ABC's Grey's Anatomy spinoff Private Practice were good, and General Electric 's NBC scored with its remake of Bionic Woman, there have been no breakout hits.
These are the young who don't have the advantages of a stable family life, parental role models at home, and teachers in good private or public schools instilling in them the joy of learning.
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As for the right to education, while noble in its goal of providing every child a schooling, it may have the unintended effect of shutting down good private schools for some of India's poorest children by mandating infrastructure many won't be able to afford.
Good private schools of varying stripes have sprung up everywhere during the last ten years, even in Arkansas. (All those rich Wal-Mart Stores executives living in Fayetteville have insisted on it.) Outside the Upper Midwest, college towns usually are the best bet for public K-12 schools.
Perhaps we should keep the government out of something private enterprise has a good business in.
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One of the most distracting questions: Whether private equity is inherently good or bad.
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Altogether, these projects have led to thousands of good, private sector jobs, especially for those in the trades.
Rowan argues that the publicness of the private reflection is a good thing.
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Greenblatt has had an interesting career post-Ethos, and has done a great job harnessing the private sector for public good.
Second, the study does not look at whether government agencies or private firms could perform good works more efficiently than charities do.
The rise of private equity should be good news for corporate Europe.
Up until recently, virtualization and container technology for mobile has been the purview of private companies such as Good Technology, OpenPeak and Enterproid.
Sure, the numbers from ADP on private sector employment were good.
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"Mitt Romney will tell us the hard truths we need to hear to put us back on the path to growth and create good paying private sector jobs again in America, " he said.
In fact, the majority of cases we have seen so far, if not all, involved obtaining information to write and publish stories about people's private lives with no good, justifiable reason.
Of course, Evernote has screwed with it, so now it won't default to keeping my pictures private (not so good for the clients, or my reputation) and the new layout hides the sharing feature in a stupid drop-down menu.
One of the general principles of a neoliberal approach to providing goods is that it is better to give people cash to spend among private providers of a good rather than the government provide these goods themselves at a discount.
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