Ben Fine

The Coal Question (Routledge Revivals) (eBook, ePUB)

Political Economy and Industrial Change from the Nineteenth Century to the Present Day

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This account of the economics of coal, first published in 1990, is unique in its comprehensive approach. An interesting analysis of the complex relationship between industrial change and political economy and an important contribution to economics, this study will be of great value to students of the theory and history of industrial change and the British coal industry.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 244
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Mai 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135040475
• Artikelnr.: 38402992

Autorenporträt

Ben Fine is a mathematician and professor at Fairfield University in Connecticut in the United States. He is a graduate of the MFA program at Fairfield University and is the author of fifteen books (twelve in mathematics, one on chess, one a political thriller and one a swashbuckler about pirates) as well over 130 research articles, fifteen short stories and a novella about pirates. His story August 18, 1969, published in the Green Silk Journal, was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. His story From the Dambovitsa to Coney Island was an honorable mention winner in the Glimmer Train Literary Contest. His story The Schuyler Diamonds won first place in the Writer's Digest Popular Fiction Awards in the Mystery/Crime Category. His story My Mother, God, and the Big Blue Ford, published in Green Silk Journal, won Honorable Mention in the 45th New Millennium Writing Awards. He has completed a memoir told in interwoven stories called Tales from Brighton Beach: A Boy Grows in Brooklyn. The stories detail his growing up in Brighton Beach, a seaside neighborhood on the southern tip of Brooklyn, during the 1950s and 1960s. Brighton Beach was unique and set apart from the rest of New York City, both in character and in time. His latest novel, Out of Granada, was released in 2017. His author website is https://benfineauthor.com

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part One: Monopoly and Coal 1. Monopoly,
capitalism and the coal vend 2. Cartels and rationalization in the 1930s;
Part Two: Coal royalties 3. Royalty or rent: what's in a name? 4.
Royalties: from private obstacle to public burden?; Part Three: Cliometrics
and coal 5. Returning to factor returns: the late nineteenth century coal
industry 6. Returns to scale in the interwar coal industry 7. The diffusion
of mechanical coal cutting Part Four: Towards privatization? 8. The
commanding heights of public corporation economics 9. Privatization and
property rights: from electricity to coal 10. Coal: the ultimate
privatization; Notes; Reference; Index.