| Whose Utility? Contributor(s): Ernst, John (Author), Ernst (Author) |
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ISBN: 033519267X ISBN-13: 9780335192670 Publisher: Open University Press OUR PRICE: $47.45 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 1994 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science - Medical | Health Policy |
| Dewey: 363.609 |
| LCCN: 93038812 |
| Series: English, Language, and Education Series |
| Physical Information: 0.51" H x 6" W x 9" (0.72 lbs) 240 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: An in-depth analysis of the impact of public utility privatization on ordinary consumers. This text traces the history of energy and water privatization and documents the community and consumer sectors' various attempts to influence the structure of privatization and regulation. It provides data on the energy and water utilities over the first period of privatization and shows that the benefits and costs of privatization have not been shared equally. Low income consumers have been particularly adversly affected and the regressive outcomes of privatization have undercut the gains that domestic comsumers have made in some areas of service provision. Concluding with an overview of the British experiment of energy and water privatization, the author argues that the privatization settlements reached by successive Conservative governments with the privatized utility companies are seriously flawed, and that the British model of privatization is inappropriate to the domain of essential public utility service. |
