Reappraising state owned enterprise a comparison of the UK and Italy

After a quarter century of almost general condemnation and rebuttal of the entire nationalization experience, it appears that there are second thoughts about governmental direct intervention in the economy. Reappraising State-Owned Enterprise deals with a topic often undervalued in the past decade b...

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Other Authors: Amatori, Franco (-), Millward, Robert, Toninelli, Pierangelo Maria
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Routledge 2011.
Edition:1st edition
Series:Routledge international studies in business history ; 21.
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See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009628817906719
Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Reappraising State-Owned Enterprise; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Preface; Part I Policies, Outcomes, and Funding; 1 Introduction; 2 The Nature of State Enterprise in Britain; 3 Does a Model of Italian State-Owned Enterprise Really Exist?; 4 Attempts to "Modernize": Nationalization and the Nationalized Industries in Postwar Britain; 5 Size, Boundaries, and Distribution of Italian State-Owned Enterprise (1939-1983); 6 The Financing of a Large Infrastructure Project: The Case of the Channel Tunnel
  • 7 Finance and Structure of the State-Owned Enterprise in Italy: IRI from the Golden Age to the FallPart II State-Owned Enterprises in Different Sectors; 8 Property Rights, Economic Rents, BNOC, and North Sea Oil; 9 Capabilities, Entrepreneurship, and Political Direction in the Italian National Oil Company: AGIP/ENI (1926-1971); 10 Iron and Steel State Industry in the UK and Italy; 11 From Craftsmanship to Post-Fordism: Shipbuilding in the United Kingdom and Italy after WWII; 12 State Enterprise in British Electricity Supply: An Economic Success?
  • 13 Industrial Policy and the Nationalization of the Italian Electricity Sector in the Post-World War II PeriodList of Acronyms; List of Contributors; Index