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How not to Privatise
Author(s) -
Sampson Anthony
Publication year - 1987
Publication title -
economic affairs
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.24
H-Index - 18
eISSN - 1468-0270
pISSN - 0265-0665
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-0270.1987.tb01842.x
Subject(s) - shareholder , revenue , profit (economics) , economics , government (linguistics) , state (computer science) , business , finance , microeconomics , corporate governance , linguistics , philosophy , algorithm , computer science
The outright gift of shares in formerly state‐owned industries would both deprive government of revenue with which it could cut taxes and delude new shareholders that their acquisitions do not entail risk os well as the prospect of profit, argues Anthony Sampson, Lecturer in Economics at Sheffield University.