w25 – Privatisation – lecture handout [colour, 4 slides to page] / Lecture handout – notes format [b/w] / List of privatisations [colour] [pdf]
Primary reading
Chakrabortty, A (2018), Britain fell for a neoliberal con trick – even the IMF says so, The Guardian, Oct 17th
Davies, L, Wright, K and Waddams Price, C (2005), Experience of Privatisation, Regulation and Competition: Lessons for Governments, ESRC Centre for Competition Policy CCP Working Paper 05-5, University of East Anglia
Kay, J (2002), Twenty Years of Privatisation, Prospect magazine, June 1st
Middleton, R (2014), Economic policy and management, in Floud, R, Humphries, J and Johnson, J (eds), The Cambridge Economic History of Modern Britain vol 2 1870 to the present, Cambridge: CUP [pp476-505]
Millward, R (2014), The growth of the public sector, in Floud, R, Humphries, J and Johnson, J (eds), The Cambridge Economic History of Modern Britain vol 2 1870 to the present, Cambridge: CUP [pp387-415]
Millward, R (2002), The British Privatisation programme: a long term perspective, 1st Milan European Economy Workshop, University of Milan
Parker, D (2009), The official history of Privatisation vol 1: The formative years 1970-1987, Abingdon: Routledge [see Publisher’s extract]
Parker, D (2004), The UK’s Privatisation Experiment: The Passage of Time Permits a Sober Assessment, CESifo working paper no.1126, Feb
Rhodes, C and Hough, D (2014), Privatisation, House of Commons Research Paper 14/61, House of Commons Library, Nov 14th
Seymour, R (2012), A short history of privatisation, The Guardian, Mar 29th
Background
Filby, E (2015), We’re desperate to believe in something. But bringing God into economics is risky, The Guardian, Mar 3rd
Greenwood, I (2016), The ‘invisible hand’ won’t save the British steel industry. State aid can, The Guardian, Mar 30th
Grierson, J (2019), Probation will be renationalised after disastrous Grayling reforms, The Guardian, May 16th
Hutton, W (2016), The dogmas destroying UK steel also inhibit future economic growth, The Guardian, April 3rd
* Hutton, W (2018), We can undo privatisation. And it won’t cost us a penny, The Guardian, Jan 9th
Jack, I (2013), How far can privatisation go? Perhaps government itself could be outsourced, The Guardian, Dec 6th
* Inman, P (2018), After Carillion and Capita, is PFI itself on the critical list?, The Guardian, Feb 3rd
* National Audit Office (2018), PFI and PF2, HM Treasury, Jan 18th
Neate, R (2014), Royal Mail birthday celebrations overshadowed by privatisation chaos, The Guardian, Oct 10th
Monbiot, G (2019), Neoliberalism promised freedom – instead it delivers stifling control, The Guardian, April 10th
Ruddick, G (2016), Port Talbot – heart of the storm battering Britain’s steel industry, The Guardian, Mar 29th
Topham, G (2015), Repainted and rebranded – Virgin Trains East Coast service leaves London, The Guardian, Mar 2nd
* Toynbee, P (2018), It’s not just Carillion. The whole privatisation myth has been exposed, The Guardian, Jan 22nd