Update on Sandy Springs, the PPP City

FEE has done an interview Oliver Porter the architect of Sandy Springs, a city which has contracted out everything except police, courts and fire services to private parties and has just a small handful of city employees. (Though I’m not sure why they haven’t contracted out fire protection as well.)

Sandy Springs offers an excellent model to learn about how to employ private markets to make government services more effective and efficient, especially how to design good contracts and auctioning systems for public private partnerships.

Here’s the original NYT story for some background.