'Changing role of government in British civil air transport, 1919-49' in R Millward & J Singleton (eds), Political Economy of Nationalisation in Britain, 1920-50
Details:
- Author(s) Lyth, Peter J
- Publication type Chapter
- Year published 1995
- Pages pp65-87
- Publisher Cambridge University Press
- Place Published Cambridge
Topics:
- Name Public ownership & control inc nationalisation, municipalisation & privatisation
- Name Government intervention exc legislation & regulation
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Library:
- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Notes:
Discusses the determination of the state's attitude to nationalisation of civil aviation, reaching back to the 1920s and observing how the forces - 'prompted by a mixture of economic pragmatism and ideological consistency' - changed and coalesced over this period. Sections include: 'Failure of early competition'; 'Subsidised private monopoly'; 'Subsidised competition'; 'State owned monopoly'; 'Labour's multiplicity of instruments'; 'Size and performance of airline operation'