TY - BOOK AU - Coombes,David L. TI - State enterprise: business or politics? SN - 0043380476 AV - HD4145 .C6 U1 - 338.942 PY - 1971/// CY - London PB - Allen and Unwin [for] Political and Economic Planning KW - Government business enterprises KW - Public interest N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index N2 - This book examines a whole range of problems that include economic, political and administrative, to which nationalisation has given rise. It is a result of one of a series of studies of control of public expenditure in Great Britain undertaken. The book insists that the economic and social obligations of the nationalised industries reflect the general objectives of government policy for industry as a whole and are not peculiar to the nationalised industries ER -