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Millward Robert

Private and public enterprise in Europe : Energy, telecommunications and transport 1830 - 1990 - Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2008 - 351p xix

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?

ISBN: 9780521068284

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

Dewey Class. No.: 338.940000 / MIL