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Public enterprise :

Public enterprise : selected readings / - Harmondsworth : Penguin books, c1968. - 396 p. :ill, - Penguin modern economic readings .

This book is one of several volumes added as a supplement to a small library on economic development presented by the economic development institute of the World Bank to various institutions in the developing member countries of the bank.

Bibliography: p. 378-379.

This book comprise of papers by scholars that examine the concept “public enterprise.” Papers include: recent developments in the theory of marginal cost pricing; in defence of public-utility price theory; peak-load pricing; investment criteria for public enterprise; the economics of system planning in bulk electricity; water supply; telephone services; electricity tariffs; British and American postal service; cross-subsidisation in coal; residential telephone service in Britain and state liquor monopoly.


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