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Reappraising State-Owned Enterprise : a Comparison of the UK and Italy.

This volume compares the role played by State intervention in the economy in the United Kingdom and Italy. In both nations, the State played an important role as Entrepreneur in the 20th century but with different aims in each country. The crisis of 2008/2009 compels us to reconsider State intervent...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Amatori, Franco
Other Authors: Millward, Robert, Toninelli, Pier Angelo
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Hoboken : Taylor & Francis, 2011.
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Online Access:Texto completo
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.