"Reinventing government" details the most revolutionary idea of our
time-an idea whose time has come. Its authors give proof positive that
government does not have to be a gigantic and inefficient bureaucracy.
Instead, it can govern in the true sense of the word, by tapping the
tremendous power of the entrepreneurial process and the force of the
free market. In case after case, the authors show how this approach
already has proven its worth all over the country-in schools, in slums,
in sanitation, in a host of other areas where enterprising and
innovative public officials have delivered a far bigger public service
bang for every budgeted buck. To cut taxes and improve services at the
same time may seem too good to be true. Yet now we have in our hands a
way to make it come true-if we and politicians of all parties and
persuasions read it and use it.