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Reappraising state owned enterprise : a comparison of the UK and Italy / edited by Franco Amatori, Robert Millward, and Pierangelo Toninelli.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Routledge international studies in business history ; 21.
- Routledge international studies in business history ; 21
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Government business enterprises--Great Britain--History--20th century.
- Government business enterprises.
- Government business enterprises--Italy--History--20th century.
- Government ownership--Great Britain--History--20th century.
- Government ownership.
- Government ownership--Italy--History--20th century.
- Industries--Great Britain--History--20th century.
- Industries.
- Industries--Italy--History--20th century.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (300 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st edition
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Routledge, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- 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 but which now, with the crisis of 2008-2009, calls for greater attention: the direct intervention of the State as Entrepreneur.The collection of essays in this volume - prepared by some of the leading authorities in the field - offers a contribution to this debate by providi
- 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
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613660312
- 9781138377981
- 1138377988
- 9781280683374
- 1280683376
- 9781136738302
- 1136738304
- 9780203818749
- 0203818741
- OCLC:
- 794663247
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