The Rise and Fall of State-Owned Enterprise in the Western World

Book Overview

This book examines the rise and fall in the twentieth-century Western world of state-owned enterprises, a chief instrument of state economic intervention. It offers historical perspective on the origins and purpose of state-owned enterprises, their performance, and the reasons for their precipitate decline from their heyday in the 1960s to the waves of privatization in the 1980s and 1990s. Looking to the future as well as the past of state business,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521088860
• ISBN13: 9780521088862
• Release Date: October 2008
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.09 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"