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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 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- pt. I. Introduction. Ideology, technology and economic policy
- pt. II. The construction of the new European infrastructure c. 1830-1914. Infrastructure development and rights of way in the early nineteenth century
- Local supply networks, private concessions and municipalisation
- Railways and telegraph: economic growth and national unification
- Electricity supply, tramways and new regulatory regimes c. 1870-1914
- pt. III. Nations and Networks c. 1914-1945. Infrastructure development from the nineteenth to the twentieth century: an overall perspective
- The development of telecommunications
- Network integration in electricity supply: successes and failures
- Railway finances and road-rail competition
- pt. IV. State Enterprise c. 1945-1990. The new state, economic organisation and planning
- Coal, oil and security
- Airline regulation and the transport revolution
- Telecommunications 1950-1990: from calm to storm
- Economic policy, financial accountability and productivity growth
- pt. V. Conclusions. The road to deregulation and privatisation?
- Appendix: Infrastructure service levels and public ownership c. 1910: a statistical analysis.