MARC record from Internet Archive

LEADER: 02708cam a2200349Ma 4500
001 014135161-6
005 20140930150719.0
008 140523s2014 enka 000 0 eng d
020 $a0719096332 (pbk.)
020 $a9780719096334 (pbk.)
035 0 $aocn881509518
035 $a(PromptCat)60001937203
040 $aCDX$beng$cCDX$dYDXCP$dOCLCQ$dOCLCO$dBDX
043 $ae-uk---
050 4 $aHC256.6$b.B69 2014
082 04 $a338.941$223
245 04 $aThe End of the Experiment? :$bFrom Competition to the Foundational Economy /$cedited by Bowman, Andrew.
260 $aManchester :$bManchester University Press,$c2014.
300 $avi, 166 pages ;$billustrations ;$c22 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 147-166).
505 0 $aMachine generated contents note: 1. The 30 year experiment: imaginary, history and cases -- Introduction -- Disease, imaginary and experiment -- National decline and two 30 year experiments -- Sectoral cases: telecoms/broadband, supermarkets/dairy and retail banking -- 2. Telecoms and broadband: under-investment and confusion marketing -- Overview -- Introduction -- History: from public utility to natural monopoly -- Today's challenge: fibre-optic and fast broadband -- Investment-averse private sector business models -- Rural broadband: BT has government over a barrel -- Competition and football rights -- Conclusion -- Notes to Chapter 2 -- 3. Supermarkets and dairy: success at the cost of suppliers -- Overview -- Introduction -- The mechanics of shareholder value -- Defending margins: special offers not low prices -- Visible and invisible victims -- Farmers: visible victims -- Processors: the squeezed middle -- Conclusion -- Note to Chapter 3.
505 0 $aContents note continued: 4. Retail banking: (mis- )selling for return on equity -- Overview -- Introduction -- History of a business model -- High return on equity model alive and well -- Cost control and pressure selling of products -- Lending on property vs lending to SMEs -- Conclusion -- Notes to Chapter 4 -- 5. Changing the frame: there's more than one show in town -- Introduction -- The foundational economy -- Point value -- The state as guarantor of monopoly -- Policy change: the antidote fallacy and bolt-ons -- Social license -- Decentralisation and pluralism -- Changing the future together -- Notes to Chapter 5.
650 0 $aCompetition.
651 0 $aGreat Britain$xEconomic conditions.
651 0 $aGreat Britain$xEconomic policy.
650 0 $aCompetition$zGreat Britain.
899 $a415_566010
988 $a20140807
906 $0OCLC