Infrastructure public-private partnerships: decision, management and development

Suggested by Prof. Diptiranjan Mahapatra

11Preliminary Remarks; The game of bank bargains; Tools of conquest and survival: why states need banks; Privileges with burdens: war, empire, and the monopoly structure of English banking; Banks and democracy: Britain in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; 2. The cost of banker-populist alliances: the United States versus Canada; Crippled by populism: U.S. banking from colonial times to 1990; Leverage, regulatory failure, and the subprime crisis; Durable partners: politics and banking in Canada; 3. Authoritarianism, democratic transitions, and the game of bank bargains; Mexico: chaos makes cronyism look good; When autocracy fails: banking and politics in Mexico since 1982; Inflation machines: banking and state finance in imperial Brazil; The democratic consequences of inflation-tax banking in Brazil; Traveling to other places: is our sample representative?; Traveling to other places: is our sample representative?; Reality is a plague on many houses.

Economic development and social welfare depend on the existence of effective and efficient infrastructure systems, particularly in health, energy, transportation and water, many of which are developed and managed through Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs)