Privatization and economic performance

by Matthew Bishop, J. A. Kay, C. P. Mayer

1994 378 pages eng

One of the most enduring legacies of the 1980s has been the programme of privatizations that the Thatcher government set in train in the first half of the decade. Whole sectors of the UK economy which were formerly part of the public sector were sold off to the private sector. Some were bought out b…