Reappraising state-owned enterprise : a comparison of the UK and Italy / / edited by Franco Amatori, Robert Millward, and Pier Angelo Toninelli

• Pubblicazione: New York : , : Routledge, , 2011
• Edizione: 1st edition
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (300 p.)
• Disciplina: 338.6/20941
• Soggetto topico: 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
• Altri autori: AmatoriFranco MillwardRobert ToninelliPierangelo Maria
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: After a quarter century of almost general condemnation and rebuttal of the entire nationalization experience, it appears that there are second thoughts about governmental direct intervention in the economy. Reappraising State-Owned Enterprise deals with a topic often undervalued in the past decade but which now, with the crisis of 2008-2009, calls for greater attention: the direct intervention of the State as Entrepreneur.The collection of essays in this volume - prepared by some of the leading authorities in the field - offers a contribution to this debate by providi
• Titolo autorizzato: Reappraising state-owned enterprise
• ISBN: 1-138-37798-8; 1-280-68337-6; 1-136-73830-4; 9786613660312; 0-203-81874-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910812683703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Routledge international studies in business history ; ; 21.