Can coal be saved? : a radical proposal to reverse the decline of a major industry
- Title
- Can coal be saved? : a radical proposal to reverse the decline of a major industry / Colin Robinson and Eileen Marshall.
- Published by
- London : Institute of Economic Affairs, 1985.
- Author
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- Description
- 63 pages : illustrations; 22 cm
- Series statement
- Hobart paper ; 105
- Uniform title
- Hobart paper ; 105.
- Subject
- Contents
- NATIONALISATION AND AFTER: Government control of a key industry -- Failure of nationalization -- Failure of nationalization -- Failure of British coal to recover -- COAL-FORTY YEARS ON -- THE STRUCTURE OF THE BRITISH COAL MARKET: Demand -- Supply -- Profitability of the nationalized sector -- The private sector -- Private contracting and licensing of the opencast sites -- Liberalizing coal: ways and means -- Privatization and liberalization -- Freeing imports -- Privatizing coal production -- Ownership of coal reserves -- Opencast coal -- Deep-mined coal -- Relaxing existing restrictions on licensed deep mining -- Private and joint ventures for new pits -- Selling existing pits -- Selling existing pits jointly with power stations -- Conclusions on the forms of liberalization -- V. LIBERALISING COAL: ADVANTAGES AND PROBLEMS: State control versus competition -- Reform from within? -- Reduced monopoly power of labour -- Less politicization of decision-making -- Efficiency gains -- 'Uneconomic' pits.
- Owning institution
- Princeton University Library
- Bibliography (note)
- Bibliography: p. 61.