Product Description: The last few years have seen the spectacular failure of market fundamentalism in Europe and the US. As the environmental limits and socially destructive tendencies of the current profit-driven economic model become daily more self-evident, there is a growing demand for a fairer economic alternative, as evidenced by the mounting campaigns against global finance and the politics of austerity...read more

Product Description: Gas, electricity, the telephone system, even the water supply and sewage disposal - all of these and more have been sold off by the British government in recent years. Privatization has swiftly extended share ownership to millions of people who had never owned shares before, with the government seeing this as a means of encouraging a new culture of "popular capitalism" among the British people...read more

Product Description: Drawing on his experience in government, industry and academia, Foster provides a comprehensive study of privatization policy under the Conservative Government since 1979. In this non-technical work, he draws on the history of state intervention, regulation and nationalization of industries that were argued to be natural monopolies, eg the railways...read more

Product Description: During the 1980s and 90s the labour movement has been forced into defending the post-war welfare state and local services but has had relatively little to say on their design, context and delivery. The author analyzes the results of deregulation, privatization and commercialization of the public sector and shows that performance has by no means always been improved...read more

Product Description: Book by Johnson, Christopher

Product Description: The underlying theme of this book is the role of public law in defining and limiting state activity, as applied to the nationalized industries. The author shows how law has attempted to play a constitutional role in mapping out the relationships between the state and the industries, and to resolve problems of developing procedures and institutions for ensuring accountability and enabling participation in the policy-making process...read more

Product Description: Book by Pliatzky, Leo

Product Description: This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process...read more