Private and public enterprise in Europe : energy, telecommunications and transport, 1830-1990 / Robert Millward.
This is a comparative history of the economic organisation of energy, telecommunications and transport in Europe.
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Cambridge, UK ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2005.
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| Series: | Cambridge studies in economic history.
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Table of Contents:
- Map : the European economy in 1914
- Pt. I. Introduction
- 1. Ideology, technology and economic policy
- Pt. 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
- Pt. III. Nations and networks c. 1914-1945
- 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
- Pt. IV. State enterprise c. 1945-1990
- 10. The new state, economic organisation and planning
- 11. Coal, oil and security
- 12. Airline regulation and the transport revolution
- 13. Telecommunications 1950-1990 : from calm to storm
- 14. Economic policy, financial accountability and productivity growth
- Pt. V. Conclusions
- 15. The road to deregulation and privatisation?
- App. Infrastructure service levels and public ownership c. 1910 : a statistical analysis.