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Zusatztext `For a comprehensive balance-sheet on the flight from public ownership! specialists should refer to The Political Economy of Privatization.' - New Statesman & Society Informationen zum Autor Thomas Clarke is Professor of Coporate Governance at Leeds Buusiness School, Leeds Metropolitan University. Christos Pitelis is the Barclays Bank Lecturer in Industrial Organization & Corporate Strategy at the Judge Institute of Management Studies and Official Fellow in Economics at Queen's College ,University of Cambridge. Klappentext In The Political Economy of Privatization the authors assess the success of privatization. The work is an international study of the extensive privatization, and the pressure towards privatization, in different parts of the world. The book includes: * A study of the relationship between ownership and performance; * An assessment of the importance of market structure and regulation; * A discussion of privatization strategies within the public sector; * Individual country case-studies, looking at the experience of different countries engaged in the contrasting approaches to privatization. * A critical assessment of the much vaunted relationship between ownership and efficiency. Zusammenfassung This book considers the many facets of the privatization process in advanced industrialised countries, along with the marketization of Eastern Europe, and the pressures on developing countries to adopt privatization as the route to growth. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of figures, List of tables, Contributors, Preface, 1 INTRODUCTION: THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF PRIVATIZATION, Part I Ownership and performance, Part II Market structure and regulation, Part III Privatization strategies within the public sector, Part IV Privatization in advanced industrial economies, Part V Privatization in Eastern Europe, Part VI Privatization in developing countries, Index...
