State enterprise in British Electricity Supply: An economic success?

Reappraising State-Owned Enterprise: A Comparison of the UK and Italy

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 223-241

  Millward, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

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