Intro -- Contents -- Series Foreword -- I Introduction -- 1 Public Infrastructure Provisioning -- 2 Actors and Innovations in the Evolution of Infrastructure Services -- II Investment, Growth, Policy Issues -- 3 Population Density, Optimal Infrastructure, and Economic Growth -- 4 Infrastructure...

The privatisation policy pursued in the UK by Mrs Thatcher's government (1979-1990) and subsequently by Mr Major's government (1990-1997) was the largest experiment in public divestitures among capitalist economies. It had a deep impact on economic policy-making world wide, and was vastly...