Robert Millward

Private and Public Enterprise in Europe

Energy, Telecommunications and Transport, 1830-1990

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Produktbeschreibung

This 2005 book is a comparative history of the economic organisation of energy, telecommunications and transport in Europe in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It examines the role that private and public enterprise have played in the construction and operation of the railways, electricity, gas and water supply, tramways, coal, oil and natural gas industries, telegraph, telephone, computer networks and other modern telecommunications. The book begins with the arrival of the railways in the 1830s, charts the development of arms' length regulation, municipalisation and nationalisation, and ends on the eve of privatisation in the 1980s. Robert Millward argues that the role of ideology, especially in the form of debates about socialism and capitalism, has been exaggerated. Instead the driving forces in changes in economic organisation were economic and technological factors and the book traces their influence in shaping the pattern of regulation and ownership of these key sectors of modern economies.

Produktdetails

• Cambridge Studies in Economic History - Second Series
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 372
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Oktober 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 716g
• ISBN-13: 9780521835244
• ISBN-10: 0521835240
• Artikelnr.: 14726912

Autorenporträt

Robert Millward is Professor of Economic History at the University of Manchester. His previous publications include Public and Private Ownership of British Industry 1820-1990 (1994) and The Political Economy of Nationalism in Britain 1920-50 (1995).

Inhaltsangabe

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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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?

Rezensionen

Review of the hardback: 'This is a riveting, wide-ranging analysis of the development of these technologically driven industries which is absolutely vital reading for historians of this period. It is interdisciplinary, internationally comparative and also easy to read. In many ways it makes an excellent companion volume to Millward's much earlier economics text Public Expenditure Economics (1971) and could, along with other texts such as Oz Shy's The Economics of Network Industries, provide the basis for a chronologically long, internationally wide-ranging and economically stimulating course on the international development of network industries.' Economic History Review