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The Coal Question (Routledge Revivals): Political Economy and Industrial Change from the Nineteenth Century to the Present Day book cover

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The Coal Question (Routledge Revivals) Political Economy and Industrial Change from the Nineteenth Century to the Present Day

By Ben Fine Copyright 1990
242 Pages
by Routledge

244 Pages
by Routledge

244 Pages
by Routledge
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The coal industry has always occupied a symbolic place in British economic and political life, inspiring debates and arousing passions throughout the last two centuries. This account of the economics of coal, first published in 1990, is unique in its comprehensive three-part approach. First, Ben Fine charts the ways in which the theoretical understanding of the British coal industry has changed... Read more

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.

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