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Can coal be saved? : a radical proposal to reverse the decline of a major industry

Title: Can coal be saved? : a radical proposal to reverse the decline of a major industry / Colin Robinson and Eileen Marshall.
Author: Robinson, Colin, 1932-
Publication: London : Institute of Economic Affairs, 1985.

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Additional Authors

Marshall, Eileen.

Description

63 pages : illustrations; 22 cm

Series Statement

Hobart paper ; 105

Uniform Title

Hobart paper ; 105.

Subject

Bibliography (note)

Bibliography: p. 61.

Contents

NATIONALISATION AND AFTER: Government control of a key industry -- Failure of nationalization -- Failure of nationalization -- Failure of British coal to recover -- COAL-FORTY YEARS ON -- THE STRUCTURE OF THE BRITISH COAL MARKET: Demand -- Supply -- Profitability of the nationalized sector -- The private sector -- Private contracting and licensing of the opencast sites -- Liberalizing coal: ways and means -- Privatization and liberalization -- Freeing imports -- Privatizing coal production -- Ownership of coal reserves -- Opencast coal -- Deep-mined coal -- Relaxing existing restrictions on licensed deep mining -- Private and joint ventures for new pits -- Selling existing pits -- Selling existing pits jointly with power stations -- Conclusions on the forms of liberalization -- V. LIBERALISING COAL: ADVANTAGES AND PROBLEMS: State control versus competition -- Reform from within? -- Reduced monopoly power of labour -- Less politicization of decision-making -- Efficiency gains -- 'Uneconomic' pits.

ISBN

0255361874
9780255361873

OCLC

ocm12951026
12951026
SCSB-632291

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Princeton University Library