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The official history of privatisation Vol. 2, Popular capitalism, 1987-97 /
This is Volume II of Professor Parker's authoritative Official History of Privatisation, covering the period from the re-election of Margaret Thatcher in 1987 to the election of Tony Blair in 1997. Volume II considers in detail several of the major privatisations, including those of airports, s...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hoboken :
Taylor & Francis,
2012.
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| Colección: | Government official history series.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; The Official History of Privatisation; Copyright; Contents; Abbrevations; List of figures, tables and plates; Acknowledgements; Preface; 1. The Privatisation Programme by June 1987; 2. On To The Next Stage
- Privatisation and the 1987-92 Government; The economic and political context; The Community Charge, Thatcher's resignation and Major's election; Once more into recession; Deregulation and privatisation: the background; The BP share offer; The Next Steps initiative; Market testing; Public private partnerships; Smaller privatisations
- property sales and government agencies.
- The National Engineering LaboratoryThe Tote; James Mackie
- a near nationalisation; The welfare state; 3. Privatising The British Airports Authority; The decision to privatise; Rethinking the structure; Ministerial disagreements; The Airports White Paper and the Airports Act; The flotation; 4. Privatising British Steel; Manifest crisis; Disposals and joint ventures; Continuing problems and the future of Ravenscraig; A difficult privatisation; The flotation; And afterwards; 5. Privatising British Leyland; Reluctant support; Jaguar; Commercial vehicles, Land Rover and Leyland Bus; Unipart.
- Austin RoverNo redemption; 6. Privatising Girobank, The Trust Ports and Short Brothers; Girobank; The trust ports; Short Brothers; 7. Privatising the Water Industry in England and Wales: Early Planning; The structure of the water industry under public ownership; The decision to privatise; Opposition to the White Paper; The plans resubmitted; Addressing remaining challenges; 8. Regulating the Water Industry; The basic structure; The price cap; Setting the K factors; 9. Water Privatisation Achieved; Arranging the flotation; Settling outstanding issues; Marketing the sale; The flotation.
- Post sale developments10. Privatising of the Electricity Industry: The Origins; The electricity industry pre-privatisation; Electricity privatisation: initial ideas; The decision to privatise; Fresh impetus and the White Papers; The Electricity Act; 11. The Failure to Privatise Nuclear Generation; Protecting nuclear energy; The mounting back end costs; The privatisation unravels; Nuclear withdrawn; 12. Creating Electricity Markets; Administering the process; The power pool; The distribution and transmission contract arrangements; Generation and supply contracts.
- Competition in supply and concluding the generation contractsRegulation; The distribution and supply price caps; The transmission price cap; The European dimension; Employment relations and pensions; Green issues and the implications of privatisation for the coal industry; 13. Privatising the Electricity Industry: Capital Restructuring, the Sales and Later Developments; Capital restructuring; Organising the flotations; Marketing the shares; The employee share incentives; Special shares; Concluding the sale of the RECs; Concluding the sale of National Power and PowerGen.