Routledge Library Editions: Public Enterprise and Privatization
British Public Utilities and National Development
1st Edition
By Marshall E. Dimock
April 08, 2021
One of the most important trends in post-war Britain was the extension of the number and variety of public service undertakings. Originally published in 1933, this title indicated the empirical nature and recent importance of British public utility development at the time, being the first study, ...
Economic Analysis and Public Enterprises
1st Edition
By Ralph Turvey
April 08, 2021
Originally published in 1971, this is a rigorous analysis of the economic aspects of the efficiency of public enterprises at the time. The author first restates and extends the relevant parts of welfare economics, and then illustrates its application to particular cases, drawing on the work of the ...
Politics, Finance and the Role of Economics: An Essay on the Control of Public Enterprise
1st Edition
By C. D. Foster
April 08, 2021
Originally published in 1971, when nationalized industries employed about 7 per cent of the national labour force, created about 10 per cent of the gross domestic product and had annual investment programmes which were equal to those of all private manufacturing put together. Even this understates ...
Privatisation in Developing Countries
1st Edition
Edited
By V. Ramanadham
April 08, 2021
It is widely felt that the public sector in many developing countries is too large, and that privatisation would benefit both the users of individual services and the economy in general. However, enthusiasm for private enterprise solutions is not always matched by the requisite financial and ...
Privatisation in the UK
1st Edition
Edited
By V. Ramanadham
April 08, 2021
The Conservative’s privatisation programme was one of the most ambitious aspects of their attempt to redraft the political and economic map of the United Kingdom. Originally published in 1988, this book explores the processes of privatisation from a variety of standpoints. Its contributors include ...
Public Enterprise: Studies in Organisational Structure
1st Edition
Edited
By V. Ramanadham
April 08, 2021
Originally published in 1986, this volume brings together papers on the organisational structure of select public enterprises from nine countries, developed and developing. They are set in different forms, work in different sectors and have diverse experiences, often on similar issues. The papers ...
Public Enterprise and Economic Development
1st Edition
By A. H. Hanson
April 08, 2021
Originally published in 1959, the subject of this book is an aspect of economic development which, despite its importance, had rarely attracted more than incidental attention at the time. The author’s interest in public enterprise in underdeveloped countries was stimulated by a year’s residence in ...
Public Enterprise and Income Distribution
1st Edition
By V. Ramanadham
April 08, 2021
How amenable is public enterprise to the implementation of national distributional policies? This is the question explored here by Professor Ramanadham. Originally published in 1988, he examines the various channels through which distributional effects take place through their operations, and draws...
Public Enterprise and the Developing World
1st Edition
Edited
By V. Ramanadham
April 08, 2021
Originally published in 1984, this book grew out of the papers (and discussions) presented at the Seminar conducted at London Business School during March-June 1983, with a focus on the problems of public enterprise in the context of the developing world. Essentially, three facts of thought emerged...
Public Enterprise in Britain: Thoughts on Recent Experiences
1st Edition
By V. Ramanadham
April 08, 2021
Originally published in 1959, the author has observed at first hand the workings of public enterprise in Britain. He has coupled objectivity with an acute sense of economic perception and has produced a clear and ordered study of the workings of nationalization in industry at the time. His book ...
Public and Private Enterprise: The Lindsay Memorial Lectures given at the University of Keele 1964
1st Edition
By John Jewkes
April 08, 2021
Originally published in 1965, Professor Jewkes re-examines the principles which should determine the dividing line between the role of the State and the field of individual responsibility in economic life. Beginning with a brief account of how the functions of Government at the time had been ...
State Capital and Private Enterprise: The Case of the UK National Enterprise Board
1st Edition
By Daniel C. Kramer
April 08, 2021
To what extent can governments supplement private venture capitalists and stimulate the economy by providing money to new entrepreneurs as well as existing enterprises? The UK’s National Enterprise Board (NEB) attempted to do just this, and whilst it gained most publicity through its efforts to ...