Limiting Resources: Market-Led Reform and the Transformation of Public Goods

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Haglund, LaDawn, 1968– Limiting resources : market-led reform and the transformation of public goods / LaDawn Haglund. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-271-03718-9 (cloth : alk. paper) 1. Water resources development—Costa Rica. 2. Water resources development—El Salvador. 3. Electric power—Costa Rica. 4. Electric power—El Salvador. 5. Public goods. I. Title. HD1696.C8.H34 2010 333.793⬘2097284—dc22 2010007381 Copyright  2010 The Pennsylvania State University All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America Published by The Pennsylvania State University Press, University Park, PA 16802-1003 It is the policy of The Pennsylvania State University Press to use acid-free paper. Publications on uncoated stock satisfy the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information Sciences—Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Material, ANSI Z39.48-1992. This book is printed on Natures Natural, which contains 50% post-consumer waste. In memory of jolie rickman, stronger than your average superhero Although Central America has had no political unity . . . it has had a certain ‘‘economic unity’’ as a result of its subjection to common external influences [which] have filtered through domestic institutions to affect each economy in slightly different ways. Thus, the region exhibits both conformity and diversity and the problem facing an author is to see the one without losing sight of the other. —victor bulmer-thomas, The Political Economy of Central America Since 1920 ...