Government, Industry and Privatisation
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Government, Industry and Privatisation
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1 The Bargaining Economy
2 Structure and Growth in Government
3 Regulation (1): Competition Policy
4 Regulation (2): Environmental Policy
5 Government Purchasing
6 Government Control of Private Industry: Subsidies
7 The Government as Producer (1): Non-marketed Output
8 The Government as Producer (2): Marketed Output of Public Enterprises
9 Privatisation and Deregulation
Appendix 1 Answers to Review Questions
Appendix 2 Practice Final Examinations
Index
List of Tables
Table 2.1 UK central and local government transactions by economic category 2000–01 (£ billion)
Table 2.2 Government expenditure on current goods and services as a percentage of GDP (2000)
Table 2.3 General government expenditure as a percentage of GDP (2000)
Table 2.4 Government employment as percentage of total employment (1997)
Table 2.5 Government expenditure on current goods and services as a percentage of GDP (1960–97)
Table 2.6 General government expenditure as a percentage of GDP (1960–97)
Table 2.7 Elasticities of functional expenditure with respect to GDP 1980–95 (with 1960–80 in brackets)
Table 2.8 General government share in employment (%)
Table 4.1 Enforcement action by all authorities
Table 4.2 Fairest way of finding the money needed to solve environmental problems, 1986 and 1989
Table 4.3 Estimates of the cost of reducing sulphur dioxide emissions from power stations for selected options
Table 5.1 Comparison of target and actual costs
Table 6.1 Total volume of aid (1994–96 and 1996–98)
Table 6.2 International comparisons of government-financed R&D, 1996
Table 6.3 Different forms of aid as % of aid to manufacturing (average 1996–98)
Table 6.4 Two launching aid projects
Table 8.1 Public Enterprise: Investment shares for selected countries, 1970–87
Table 8.2 Trends in productivity 1968–78
Table 8.3 Nationalised industries' productivity
Table 8.4 Averages per employee 1958/9–1973/4
Table 8.5 Trends in productivity 1978–85
Table 9.1 Privatisation proceeds in the UK, 1979–80 to 1997–98
Table 9.2 UK Public offerings of shares
Table 9.3 Privatisation proceeds in selected countries, billion US$
Table 9.4 Congressional Regulatory Acts and Amendments by decade
Table 9.5 Chronology of Federal Regulatory Agencies
Table 9.6 Principal Deregulatory Acts
Table 9.7 Growth of cable television in the US
Table A1.1 Supply information for three firms
Table A1.2 Total subsidies as percentage of total public expenditure (average 1986–90)
Table A1.3 Total aid element per person employed in EC countries in ECU (1986–90 average)
Table A1.4 Total subsidies as percentage of gross value added (average 1986–90)
Table A1.5 Suggested rankings of institutions by constraints on managers
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