Privatisation

Roger Bootle

Chapter 4 in Public Expenditure Policy, 1985–86, 1985, pp 77-99 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract The case for privatisation has its orgins in both the intellectual revolution of the 1970s against the post-war Keynesian consensus, and disillusion with the performance of public enterprises in practice. But privatisation took on added importance for the Conservative Government for several reasons: to reduce union power, to contain the figures for government expenditure and the PSBR, to help regenerate the economy from the supply side, and to broaden support for the capitalist system.

Keywords: Public Sector; Cash Flow; Public Enterprise; British Petroleum; Privatisation Programme (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1985
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-08252-0_4

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