The rise and fall of state-owned enterprise in the western world / ed. by Pier Angelo Toninelli.

Revised papers from a conference held in Milan.

The rise and fall of public enterprise: the framework / Pier Angelo Toninelli -- The decline of state-owned enterprise and the new foundations of the state-industry relationship / Nicola Bellini -- The performance of state-owned enterprises / Yair Aharoni -- The role of the state in economic growth / Erik S. Reinert -- The rise and fall of state-owned enterprise in Germany / Ulrich Wengenroth -- Beyond state and market: Italy's futile search for a third way / Franco Amatori -- State enterprise in Britain in the twentieth century / Robert Millward-- The rise and decline of state-owned industry in twentieth-century France / Emmanuel Chadeau -- The rise and decline of Spanish state-owned firms / Albert Carreras, Xavier Tafunell, and Eugenio Torres -- Fifty years of state-owned industry in Austria, 1946-1996 / Dieter Stiefel -- A reluctant state and its enterprises: state-owned enterprises in the Netherlands in the "long" twentieth century /M. Davids and Jan L. van Zanden -- State-owned enterprises in a hostile