Reappraising State-Owned Enterprise : a Comparison of the UK and Italy.

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 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 Edited By Franco Amatori, Robert Millward, And Pier Angelo Toninelli. Description Based Upon Print Version Of Record. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. English