First, the authors mix 'private nonprofits' and 'public sector' entities up into a jumble, then unfavorably compare the 'public sector' to the 'private commercial' sector. Then lump the 'private nonprofits' in with the public sector. Are you feeling light-headed... I mean... fuzzy-headed, yet?
Then, there are the contradictions and the wacky math!
"... roughly 1.2 million nonprofits currently operate in the U.S., constituting about 5 percent of all private organizations." (Chapter 1, pg 3) --- AND --- "Nonprofits employ millions of workers, produce close to 10 percent of the nation's output,..." (Chapter 1, pg 3) --- HOWEVER --- "Moreover, nonprofit organizations are much less efficient than for-profit firms in producing goods and services." (Chapter 1, pg 2)
'S'cuse me? Nonprofits consistute 5% of all private organizations, but produce 10% of the nations's [that's the e-n-t-i-r-e NATION's] output, not just private organizations output. That ONE statement implies the author's formula considers SEC-regulated public corporations also, yes? So, how can non-profits produce at least twice as much (10% output from 5% of the same type (private) organizations, not counting publicly traded corporations) be considered "less efficient producer"s? The author's state that they produce at least 2 times as much as their private counterparts! Did these authors fail math? Who edited this book?
Later, the authors take aim at all levels of government including local towns and including the operations of parks, forests, and public lands. Why? Simply because these entities may include a snack bar or gift shop... or perhaps like West Virginia, they have awesome resorts in their state parks. This book completely ignores that the reason we have public parks in many areas is because rich capitalists who made their millions during the industrial revolution decided to deed lands to make public parks and preserves instead of allowing future profiteers to plunder these great wild areas in misguided personal quests for extraordinary riches. These 'non-profits / public sector' entities exist not to 'unfairly compete' with the 'private sector', but to prevent portions of the 'private sector' from allowing personal greed and megalomania to ruin lands via ungainly-development and the plunder of natural resources.
There were so many more contradictions, so much more fuzzy logic, fuzzy math, fuzzy statistics, and twisting perceptions in this book that I found myself unable to trust the content - and uninterested in reading through to the very last page.
This book is a huge waste of a decent thesis, a great deal of research, loads of data, and what has been portrayed by the author of the preface as a great deal of personal energy expended.
It's clear this book doesn't have enough reliable information to make a real case for reigning-in 'non-profits.' It's disappointing - a complete waste of time.
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