Private and public enterprise in Europe : Energy, telecommunications and transport 1830 - 1990

By:

Millward Robert

Contributor(s):

Publication details: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2008Description: 351p xixISBN:

9780521068284

Subject(s):

1. Energy Industries - Europe - History2. Telecommunication - Transportation - Europe - History - 19th Century3. Free Enterprise - Government Business Enterprises

DDC classification:

338.940000 MIL

Contents:

Table of contents Part I. Introduction: 1. Ideology, technology and economic policy; Part II. The Construction of the New European Infrastructure c. 1830-1914: 2. Infrastructure development and rights of way in the early nineteenth century; 3. Local supply networks, private concessions and municipalisation; 4. Railways and telegraph: economic growth and national unification; 5. Electricity supply, tramways and new regulatory regimes c. 1870-1914; Part III. Nations and Networks 1914-45: 6. Infrastructure development from the nineteenth to the twentieth century: an overall perspective; 7. The development of telecommunications; 8. Network integration in electricity supply: successes and failures; 9. Railway finances and road-rail competition; Part IV. State Enterprise 1945-90: 10. The new state, economic organisation and planning; 11. Coal, oil and security; 12. Airline regulation and the transport revolution; 13. Telecommunications: from calm to storm; 14. Economic policy, financial accountability and productivity growth; Part V. Conclusions: 15. The road to privatisation and de-regulation?

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Table of contents
Part I. Introduction:
1. Ideology, technology and economic policy;
Part II. The Construction of the New European Infrastructure c. 1830-1914:
2. Infrastructure development and rights of way in the early nineteenth century;
3. Local supply networks, private concessions and municipalisation;
4. Railways and telegraph: economic growth and national unification;
5. Electricity supply, tramways and new regulatory regimes c. 1870-1914;
Part III. Nations and Networks 1914-45:
6. Infrastructure development from the nineteenth to the twentieth century: an overall perspective;
7. The development of telecommunications;
8. Network integration in electricity supply: successes and failures;
9. Railway finances and road-rail competition;
Part IV. State Enterprise 1945-90:
10. The new state, economic organisation and planning;
11. Coal, oil and security;
12. Airline regulation and the transport revolution;
13. Telecommunications: from calm to storm;
14. Economic policy, financial accountability and productivity growth;
Part V. Conclusions:
15. The road to privatisation and de-regulation?

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