The Role of Governments in Markets : Interventions and Unexpected Consequences in Industrial History (Routledge Focus on Industrial History)

Wilson, John F. (EDT)/ Toms, Steven (EDT)/ Jones, Ian (EDT)

Routledge（2025/09発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 124 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781032052984
• DDC分類 338.9009

Full Description

This shortform book presents key peer-reviewed research selected by expert series editors and contextualised by new analysis from each author on government intervention and unexpected consequences in industrial history.

With contributions on organisational structure, the quality of corporate governance, protectionism, the shareholder value model, and economic nationalism, this volume provides an array of fascinating insights into industrial history.

Of interest to business and economic historians, this shortform book also provides analysis and illustrative case studies that will be valuable reading across the social sciences.

Contents

Introduction; 1 Protectionism and the growth of overseas multinational enterprise in interwar Britain; "Protectionism and the growth of overseas multinational enterprise in interwar Britain": a retrospective; 2 The making of the First Czechoslovak Republic and the national control of companies: the nostrification policy and economic nationalism, 1918-1938; 3 The making of a puzzling industry: historical perspectives on Japan's petrochemical industry; 4 Corporate governance and public policy: 'new' initiatives by 'Old' Labour to reform stakeholder behaviour in the UK, 1965-1969