Privatisation and regulation : a review of the issues

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Privatisation and regulation : a review of the issues

edited by Peter M. Jackson and Catherine M. Price

Longman, 1994

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Includes bibliographical references and index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

This is an overview of the privatization process, drawing upon UK and international experience. Theoretical and practical issues are discussed throughout. It discusses regulation, deregulation, contracting out and internal markets and examines the theory, the promises and reality of privatization. The book is aimed at undergraduate business and economics students taking specialized options on privatization as well as public sector economics.

目次

  • 1. Privatization and regulation - a review of the issues, Peter M. Jackson and Catherine M. Price: fiscal crisis
  • the new model
  • theoretical foundations
  • privatisation and regulation
  • the political dimension
  • the achievements
  • privatisation and developing countries
  • privatisation in centrally planned economies
  • decentralisation and the contract state
  • privatisation and efficiency. Part 2 Divestiture of public sector assets, Mike Wright and Steve Thompson: the rationale, form and method of privatisation
  • privatisation issues
  • privatisation in Central and Eastern Europe
  • conclusions. Part 3 Economic regulation of privatised monopolies, Catherine Price: objectives of regulation
  • models of regulation
  • regulatory development in the UK
  • characteristics of regulation and their development. Part 4 Deregulation, Tom Weyman-Jones: traditional views on regulation
  • models for analysing deregulation I: contestability
  • models for analysing deregulation II: public choice theory
  • applications of the deregulation models
  • auctions and broadcasting deregulation
  • future deregulation and the access issue
  • assessing the gains and losses from deregulation. Part 5 The new public sector management - surrogate competition and contracting out, Peter M. Jackson: the new public sector management
  • internal/quasi markets
  • managed competition - the NHS
  • contracting out - local authority services
  • local management of schools
  • decentralisation and contracting - central government
  • problems within the PSM paradigm. Part 6 Nationalisation, privatisation, and agency status within government - testing for the importance of ownership, David Parker and Julia O'Connell Davidson: the case for privatisation
  • the organisations studied and the performance measures used
  • results. Part 7 Metamorphosis? Privatisation and the restructuring of management and labour: privatisation and restructuring - an overview
  • privatisation and organisational structures
  • markets, profits and efficiency. Part 8 Markets in health care, Ray Robinson: market failure and government intervention
  • the new style NHS market
  • objectives and performance in the new health market. Part 9 Privatisation in the former centrally planned economies, Timothy Ash et al: why privatise?
  • special problems of privatisation in the former CPEs
  • the design of privatisation programmes in the former CPEs
  • privatisation in practice - a case study of Poland. Part 10 Privatisation in less developed countries, Catherine Price: privatisation and LDC characteristics
  • market and government failure
  • macro-economic and distributional factors
  • forms and sequencing of privatisation
  • political factors.

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