State Capital and Private Enterprise: The Case of the UK National Enterprise Board

ISBN-13: 9780367173500 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 266 str.

Daniel C. Kramer

Opis

Originally published in 1988, as the first scholarly, full-length study of the National Enterprise Board (NEB), this book will be of value to those interested in the relationships between venture capitalists generally and the enterprises in which they take equity.

Spis treści

Foreword.  1. Introduction: The Rise and Fall of the NEB  2. The NEB’s Profit-and-Loss Record  3. Obstacles Faced by NEB not Confronting Private Venture Capitalists  4. The Board Wraps Itself in a Cloud of Mystery: Additional Parliamentary Tribulations of a Public Venture Capitalist  5. The NEB and the Department of Industry  6. Firms Aided by the NEB as Venture Capitalist: Case Studies  7. Highlights of the Case Studies  8. Inmos  9. The Insac Debacle  10. The Nexos Disaster  11. Alfred Herbert  12. Fairey and Ferranti  13. Rolls Royce  14. British Leyland  15. The NEB and the Ministry of Defence  16. Is an NEB Now Needed in the United Kingdom?  17. Does the US Need an NEB?  18. Government Subsidies to Specific Firms: An Evaluation of the Conservative Critique  19. Government Subsidies to Specific Firms: An Evaluation of the Radical Critique  20. The NEB: An Example of Co-operation.  Bibliography.  Index.

O autorze

Daniel C. Kramer