Ben Fine

The Coal Question (Routledge Revivals)

Political Economy and Industrial Change from the Nineteenth Century to the Present Day

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This account of the economics of coal, first published in 1990, is unique in its comprehensive approach. An interesting analysis of the complex relationship between industrial change and political economy and an important contribution to economics, this study will be of great value to students of the theory and history of industrial change and the British coal industry.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 226
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Dezember 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 286g
• ISBN-13: 9780415838412
• ISBN-10: 041583841X
• Artikelnr.: 42429722

Autorenporträt

Ben Fine

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part One: Monopoly and Coal 1. Monopoly,
capitalism and the coal vend 2. Cartels and rationalization in the 1930s;
Part Two: Coal royalties 3. Royalty or rent: what's in a name? 4.
Royalties: from private obstacle to public burden?; Part Three: Cliometrics
and coal 5. Returning to factor returns: the late nineteenth century coal
industry 6. Returns to scale in the interwar coal industry 7. The diffusion
of mechanical coal cutting Part Four: Towards privatization? 8. The
commanding heights of public corporation economics 9. Privatization and
property rights: from electricity to coal 10. Coal: the ultimate
privatization; Notes; Reference; Index.