Explores the pros and cons of privatizing the Postal Service.
The Cato Institute conference, "Private Postal Service in the 21stCentury," held June 14, 1995, in Washington, D.C., which resultedin the papers in this book, was conducted with the generous assistanceof the Shelby Cullom Davis Foundation and the FigurehutCompanies.
I also wish to acknowledge and thank those who hosted panelsat the conference. Cato's executive vice president, David Boaz, whohas written on postal privatization, is a leading market liberalthinker. Edited books to his credit include Left, Right, and Baby Boomand (with Edward H. Crane) An American Vision: Policies for the '90sand Market Liberalism: A Paradigm for the 21st Century. Ronald D. Uttserved as the associate director for privatization at the U.S. Officeof Management and Budget during the Reagan administration, andis better known as the first and, so far, only privatization czar. Healso was executive vice president of the National Chamber Foundation,the research and education division of the U.S. Chamber ofCommerce. Cato chairman and Regulation magazine editor WilliamA. Niskanen was a member of the Council of Economic Advisersfrom 1981 to 1985, including nine months as acting chairman. Hewas assistant director of the Office of Management and Budget from1970 to 1972.