The rise and fall of state-owned enterprise in the western world

Frontmatter ......Page 1
Contents ......Page 7
Preface ......Page 9
Contributors ......Page 12
PART I - SETTING THE STAGE ......Page 15
1 - The Rise and Fall of Public Enterprise: The Framework ......Page 17
2 - The Decline of State-Owned Enterprise and the New Foundations of the State-Industry Relationship ......Page 39
3 - The Performance of State-Owned Enterprises ......Page 63
4 - The Role of the State in Economic Growth ......Page 87
PART II - NATIONAL CASES ......Page 115
5 - The Rise and Fall of State-Owned Enterprise in Germany ......Page 117
6 - Beyond State and Market: Italy's Futile Search for a Third Way ......Page 142
7 - State Enterprise in Britain in the Twentieth Century ......Page 171
8 - The Rise and Decline of State-Owned Industry in Twentieth-Century France ......Page 199
9 - The Rise and Decline of Spanish State-Owned Firms ......Page 222
10 - Fifty Years of State-Owned Industry in Austria, 1946-1996 ......Page 251
11 - A Reluctant State and Its Enterprises: State-Owned Enterprises in the Netherlands in the "Long" Twentieth Century ......Page 267
12 - State-Owned Enterprises in a Hostile Environment: The U.S. Experience ......Page 287
Conclusion: Schumpeter Revisited ......Page 317
Index ......Page 325