State Capital and Private Enterprise - The Case of the Uk National Enterprise Board

List of contents

Foreword. 1. Introduction: The Rise and Fall of the NEB 2. The NEB’s Profit-and-Loss Record 3. Obstacles Faced by NEB not Confronting Private Venture Capitalists 4. The Board Wraps Itself in a Cloud of Mystery: Additional Parliamentary Tribulations of a Public Venture Capitalist 5. The NEB and the Department of Industry 6. Firms Aided by the NEB as Venture Capitalist: Case Studies 7. Highlights of the Case Studies 8. Inmos 9. The Insac Debacle 10. The Nexos Disaster 11. Alfred Herbert 12. Fairey and Ferranti 13. Rolls Royce 14. British Leyland 15. The NEB and the Ministry of Defence 16. Is an NEB Now Needed in the United Kingdom? 17. Does the US Need an NEB? 18. Government Subsidies to Specific Firms: An Evaluation of the Conservative Critique 19. Government Subsidies to Specific Firms: An Evaluation of the Radical Critique 20. The NEB: An Example of Co-operation. Bibliography. Index.

About the author

Daniel C. Kramer

Summary

Originally published in 1988, as the first scholarly, full-length study of the National Enterprise Board (NEB), this book will be of value to those interested in the relationships between venture capitalists generally and the enterprises in which they take equity.

Product details

• Authors: Daniel C. Kramer, Kramer Daniel C.
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.02.2019
• EAN: 9780367173500
• ISBN: 978-0-367-17350-0
• No. of pages: 270
• Series: Routledge Library Editions: Public Enterprise and Privatization; Routledge Library Editions: Public Enterprise and Privatization
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Accounting / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Public Finance, Industry & industrial studies, Industry and industrial studies, Public finance accounting