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Author Amatori, Franco

Title Reappraising State-Owned Enterprise : a Comparison of the UK and Italy
Published Hoboken : Taylor & Francis, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (300 pages)
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
Summary 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 intervention in the economy as a tool that cannot be undervalued
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Subject Government business enterprises -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century
Government business enterprises -- Italy -- History -- 20th century
Government ownership -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century
Government ownership -- Italy -- History -- 20th century
Industries -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century
Industries -- Italy -- History -- 20th century
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries -- General.
Government business enterprises
Government ownership
Industries
Great Britain
Italy
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Millward, Robert
Toninelli, Pier Angelo
ISBN 9780203818749
0203818741