Karen Eggleston is Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and Director of the Asia Health Policy Program in the Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center at Stanford University. John D. Donahue is Faculty Chair for the Master's in Public Policy program at the Harvard Kennedy School. Richard J. Zeckhauser is the Frank Ramsey Professor of Political Economy at the Harvard Kennedy School.

• Part I. The Framework: 1. Private Roles for Public Goals in China and the United States; 2. Concepts and Context; Part II. Policy Realms: 3. Building the Railroads that Build the Nation; 4. Real Estate's Intricate Tangle of Public and Private; 5. A Game Like No Other: Delivering the Olympics; 6. The Truest Wealth of Nations: Creating Human Capital; 7. Show Me Where It Hurts: State and Market in Health Care; Part III. The Path Forward: 8. The Transparency Imperative; Index.

'It has become increasingly clear over the last few years that in tackling a country’s problems, what matters most is the quality of government rather than the quantity. This book provides a key to understanding how to achieve that quality-public-private collaboration, done right. Delving deep into two very different societies, the US and China, the authors provide lessons that illuminate and should inform scholars and policymakers alike.' Fareed Zakaria