Selling the Family Silver: Has Privatization Worked? - Hardcover

Chapman, Colin

9780091742416: Selling the Family Silver: Has Privatization Worked?

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0091742412 ISBN 13: 9780091742416

Publisher: Random House Business Books, 1990

Selling the Family Silver is, moreover, the controversial 'warts and all' story of Britain's privatization programme, past and future. The chairmen, the cheats, the fanfares and the flops - from all sides of the political, social and economic coin, the author examines the contentious demise of nationalization and the real effectiveness of the private giants that have replaced it, finally posing the fundamental question: Has privatization worked?

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Synopsis:

This book outlines the phases which turn a state-owned organization into a full-blown privatized plc, via commercialization, "corporatization" and the so-called "fattening-up" prior to flotation. The book also covers a range of considerations, from price-fixing to Third World privatizations, and examines in detail the various camps of opposition, asking: has privatisation worked?, who exactly are Thatcherism's share-owning public?, and are the companies they own really more efficient?

About the Author:

Colin Chapman, one of Britain's leading financial journalists, presents a straightforward yet authorative explanation of the different phases which turn a public sector enterprise into a fully-fledged privatized plc: commercializatioin, 'corporatization' and the so-called 'fattening up' prior to flotation. There are special sections on price fixing as well as on the role of privatization in Eastern Europe and the Third World.

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