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Title

The Political economy of privatization / edited by Thomas Clarke and Christos Pitelis.

Publication

London ; New York : Routledge, 1993.

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Additional Authors

• Clarke, Thomas, 1950-
• Pitelis, Christos.

Description

483 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Subject

• Privatization
• Privatization > Case studies
• Economics

Note

• Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• 1. Introduction: The Political Economy of Privatization / Christos Pitelis and Thomas Clarke -- 2. Ownership, Organizational Changes and Performance / David Parker -- 3. Public Ownership and the Theory of the State / Bob Rowthorn and Ha-Joon Chang -- 4. Ownership and Competition in Community Markets / Francis McGowan -- 5. Regulating the Privatized Electricity Utilities in the UK / Thomas G. Weyman-Jones -- 6. Privatization and Market Structure in the UK Gas Industry / Trefor Jones -- 7. Privatization of the British Utilities: Regulation, Decentralization and Industrial Relations / Anthony Ferner and Trevor Colling -- 8. The Political Economy of Competitive Tendering / Matthew Uttley and Nicholas Hooper -- 9. EC Public Procurement Directives and the Competition from European Contractors for Local Authority Contracts in the UK / Michael Paddon --
• 10. Between an Ideological Rock and an Organizational Hard Place: NHS Management in the 1980s and 1990s / Mike Reed and Peter Anthony -- 11. The Political Economy of the UK Privatization Programme: A Blueprint for Other Countries? / Thomas Clarke -- 12. Context and Process in Privatization: Canada/Quebec / Jan J. Jorgensen, Taieb Hafsi and Christiane Demers -- 13. Public-Private Relations in Italy: the Experience of the 1980s / Luisa Segnana -- 14. Corporatization and Privatization in New Zealand / Alan Bollard and David Mayes -- 15. An Analysis of the Privatization of the Japan National Railway Corporation / Tetsuzo Yamamoto -- 16. Rationale and Optimal Implementation of Privatization Policies: The Case of Greece / Yannis Katsoulacos -- 17. Privatization of Socialist Economies: General Issues and the Polish Case / D. Mario Nuti -- 18. Selling Off the State: Privatization in Hungary / Peter Lawrence --
• 19. Restructuring Eastern Europe: The Case of Buy-Outs in the USSR / Igor Filatotchev, Trevor Buck and Mike Wright -- 20. Privatization in Malaysia: For What and for Whom? / Jomo K.S. -- 21. Privatization in Africa: Prospects for Tanzania / John S. Henley.

ISBN

0415086302

LCCN

92037662

OCLC

ocm27034538

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries