'Be careful what you wish for. Comparative advantage and the Wilson Smelters Project, 1967–82' in H O Frøland & M Ingulstad (eds), From Warfare to Welfare. Business-government relations in the aluminium industry
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- Author(s) MacKenzie, Niall G
- Publication type Chapter
- Year published 2013
- Pages
- Publisher Akademika
- Place Published Trondheim
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- Name Government intervention exc legislation & regulation
- Name Business/Industry failure, decline, lack of success, etc: decline of businesses
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Library:
- Name Strathclyde University Library & Archives
- City Glasgow
- County Strathclyde
- Country Scotland
- Postcode G4 ONS
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Notes:
Deals with government promoted schemes [via finance, etc] to build aluminium smelters [and associated nuclear power plant at Hunterston and Wylfa] at Invergordon [British Aluminium) and Anglesey [Rio Tinto / Kaiser operating as Angelsey Aluminium], focusing on the relations between government and operators, their different objectives for the schemes, the failure of the Invergordon scheme, the comparative experience of the two operators, issues turning on electricity supply, etc