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Private and Public Enterprise in Europe - Energy, Telecommunications and Transport, 1830-1990 (Paperback)
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Private and Public Enterprise in Europe - Energy, Telecommunications and Transport, 1830-1990 (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Studies in Economic History - Second Series
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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.
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