Lawrence Baines (Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin) is a professor at the University of Oklahoma. Baines has held endowed chairs at two institutions of higher education and is the author or co-author of eleven books.

• Figures – Tables – Acknowledgments – Introduction: Public or Private? – Privatizing the Military: Profiting from the Carnage of War – Privatizing Corrections: Making Money from Misery – Privatizing K–12 Public Education: How the Profit Motive Is Changing Schools – Privatizing Public Higher Education: Selling Off the Alma Mater – American Sellout – Index.

“Professor Baines has done an extraordinary job of shining a light on the fundamental changes going on within public institutions. But more than that, he has identified that our democracy and culture are on a dangerous trajectory away from the common good and towards profits for a very few. He shows the results of our political choices and how these choices have negatively impacted our very civilization. Highly recommended!”Robert Ellis, philanthropist and entrepreneur