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Private and public enterprise in Europe : energy, telecommunications and transport, 1830-1990 /
This is the first comparative history of the economic organisation of energy, telecommunications and transport in Europe in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It examines the role that private and public enterprise have played in the construction and operation of the railways; electricity, gas...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, UK ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2005.
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| Colección: | Cambridge studies in economic history.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | This is the first comparative history of the economic organisation of energy, telecommunications and transport in Europe in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It examines the role that private and public enterprise have played in the construction and operation of the railways; electricity, gas and water supply; tramways; coal, oil and natural gas industries; telegraph, telephone, computer networks and other modern telecommunications. The book begins with the arrival of the railways in the 1830s, charts the development of arm's-length regulation, municipalisation and nationalisation, and ends on the eve of privatisation in the 1980s. Robert Millward argues that the role of ideology, especially in the form of debates about socialism and capitalism, has been exaggerated. Instead the driving forces in changes in economic organisation were economic and technological factors and the book traces their influence in shaping the pattern of regulation and ownership of these key sectors of modern economies. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xix, 351 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-343) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780511497124 0511497121 0511127650 9780511127656 0511127901 9780511127908 0511127375 9780511127373 9780521835244 0521835240 1280217979 9781280217975 9786610217977 6610217971 9780521068284 0521068282 1107149789 9781107149786 0511200048 9780511200045 0511300514 9780511300516 |