Privatisation In The Uk

Author : John Anderson Kay
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Privatisation and Regulation written by John Anderson Kay and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on the timely topic of private enterprises and regulation in the United Kingdom from both theoretcial and appled viewpoints. Papers cover such far-ranging topics as: privatizing public enterprises, new industrial policies, private versus public enterprise performance, asset sales and liberalization, franchising and competitive tendering, and financial implications and labor relations.

Author : Matthew Bishop
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 102 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Does Privatization Work? written by Matthew Bishop and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : V. V. Ramanadham
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429576374
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Privatisation in the UK written by V. V. Ramanadham and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-02-11 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Conservative’s privatisation programme was one of the most ambitious aspects of their attempt to redraft the political and economic map of the United Kingdom. Originally published in 1988, this book explores the processes of privatisation from a variety of standpoints. Its contributors include academics, enterprise executives and government officials, many of whom had been closely involved in the programme. Fiscal, legal and social aspects of privatisation are explored but the book treats the subject as more than an immediate political issue and takes the opportunity to discuss the success – or otherwise – of public enterprise and to explore the implication of the UK experience for other countries which have an interest in privatisation.

Author : Hudson, Bob
Publisher : Policy Press
ISBN 13 : 1447355725
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Clients, Consumers or Citizens? written by Hudson, Bob and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2021-06-21 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adult social care was the first major social policy domain in England to be transferred from the state to the market. There is now a forty-year period to look back at to consider the thinking behind the strategy, the impacts on commissioners and providers of care, on the care workforce and on those who use care and support services. In this book, Bob Hudson meticulously charts these shifts. He challenges the dominant market paradigm, explores alternative models for a post-Covid-19 future and locates the debate within the wider literature on political thinking and policy change.

Author : G. Ganesh
Publisher : Mittal Publications
ISBN 13 : 9788170997160
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.6X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Privatisation Competition and Regulation in the United Kingdom written by G. Ganesh and published by Mittal Publications. This book was released on 1999 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : David Parker
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136331239
Total Pages : 674 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Official History of Privatisation, Vol. II written by David Parker and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-06-19 with total page 674 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is Volume II of Professor Parker's authoritative Official History of Privatisation, covering the period from the re-election of Margaret Thatcher in 1987 to the election of Tony Blair in 1997. Volume II considers in detail several of the major privatisations, including those of airports, steel, water, electricity, coal and the railways, as well as a number of smaller ones. Each privatisation involved major challenges in terms of industrial restructuring, organising successful sales and, in a number of cases, establishing effective regulatory regimes. The policy evolved and new methods of selling and regulating were put in place that enabled further disposals to occur. Monolithic nationalised industries with their emphasis on the benefits of economies of scale, vertical integration and rationalisation, were replaced by industrial structures rooted in the importance of commercial management, risk taking and competition. In government departments and parts of the National Health Service, direct employees were replaced by private contractors, and private investment became a characteristic of public infrastructure in the form of PFI/PPP schemes. This study draws heavily on the official records of the British government, to which the author was given full access and on interviews with the leading figures involved in each of the privatisations, including ex-ministers, civil servants, business and City figures, as well as academics that have studied the subject. This book will of great interest to students of privatisation, British political history and of business and economics in general.

Author : Allyson M. Pollock
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1789602076
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book NHS plc written by Allyson M. Pollock and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2020-05-05 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Universal, comprehensive health care, equally available to all and disconnected from income and the ability to pay, was the goal of the founders of the National Health Service. This book, by one of the NHS's most eloquent and passionate defenders, tells the story of how that ideal has been progressively eroded, and how the clock is being turned back to pre-NHS days, when health care was a commodity, fully available only to those with money. How this has come about-to the point where even the shrinking core of free NHS hospital services is being handed over to private providers at the taxpayers' expense-is still not widely understood, hidden behind slogans like "care in the community," "diversity" and "local ownership." Allyson Pollock demystifies these terms, and in doing so presents a clear and powerful analysis of the transition from a comprehensive and universal service to New Labour's "mixed economy of health care," in which hospitals with foundation status, loosely supervised by an independent regulator, will be run on largely market principles. The NHS remains popular, Pollock argues, precisely because it created the "freedom from fear" that its founders promised, and because its integrated, non-commercial character meant low costs and good medical practice. Restoring these values in today's health service has become an urgent necessity, and this book will be a key resource for everyone wishing to to bring this about.

Author : Stephen Martin
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 0415142334
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Impact of Privatisation written by Stephen Martin and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past decade economic policy in the UK and elsewhere has been guided by the belief that resources are used more efficiently in the private sector than under state ownership. Consequently, many formerly state-owned companies have been transferred to the private sector. After surveying the theoretical arguments for and against this hypothesis, this book examines the experience of eleven firms, including British Airways, Rolls-Royce and British Telecom. Various indicators are used to measure each firm's performance before and after privatisation to assess whether this policy has brought about improvements in efficiency. The first four chapters provide background material for the empirical work that follows. Chapter 1 outlines the theoretical arguments for and against the idea that private ownership will be more efficient than state control. Chapter 2 provides brief histories of the eleven organisations studied and chapter 3 discusses how their performance can be measured. Chapter 4 reviews the literature on the relative efficiency of public and private ownership. Chapter 5 considers the impact of privatisation on each of the eleven firms' labour and total factor productivity growth. Chapter 6 performs a similar analysis using two standard accounting ratios (value-added and the rate of profit). Chapter 7 assesses the impact of privatisation on technical efficiency using data envelopment analysis. In chapter 8 the impact of ownership on employment, wage levels and the distribution of business income is considered. The penultimate chapter discusses the restructuring that has followed each company's move into the private sector, and the final chapter summarises the results.

Author : C. G. Veljanovski
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Selling the State written by C. G. Veljanovski and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 1987 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Brett Chistophers
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 178663161X
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The New Enclosure written by Brett Chistophers and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2019-01-29 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How public land has been stolen from us. Much has been written about Britain's trailblazing post-1970s privatization program, but the biggest privatization of them all has until now escaped scrutiny: the privatization of land. Since Margaret Thatcher took power in 1979, and hidden from the public eye, about 10 per cent of the entire British land mass, including some of its most valuable real estate, has passed from public to private hands. Forest land, defence land, health service land and above all else local authority land- for farming and school sports, for recreation and housing - has been sold off en masse. Why? How? And with what social, economic and political consequences? The New Enclosure provides the first ever study of this profoundly significant phenomenon, situating it as a centrepiece of neoliberalism in Britain and as a successor programme to the original eighteenth-century enclosures. With more public land still slated for disposal, the book identifies the stakes and asks what, if anything, can and should be done.