Paul Seidenstat is Associate
Professor of Economics at Temple
University, Philadelphia, USA. He is a
specialist in public finance, public
management and water resources. He
is a co-author of Reinventing Water and
Wastewater Systems: Global Lessons for
Improving Management (John Wiley
and Sons, 2002), and America’s Water
and Wastewater Industries: Competition
and Privatization (Public Utilities
Reports, Inc., 2000). Dr Seidenstat
has also co-edited five other books on
the use of economic incentives to
improve the provision of public
services. He has conducted several
research projects for US federal
government agencies and served in
local government as a finance director
and financial advisor.