PUBLIC ENTERPRISE REVISITED: A CLOSER LOOK AT THE 1954-79 UK LABOUR PRODUCTIVITY RECORD

Book ID/图书代码： 13B59775

English Summary/英文概要： According to conventional wisdom, public ownership of industry in post-war Britain led, invariably, to under-performance. This text casts doubt upon this view by showing that, as far as the labour productivity record of the expanding state-owned industries is concerned, this was clearly not the case. The book compares the 1954-79 labour productivity record of five expanding public sector industries to that of 24 expanding, capital intensive, mass-production industries in the British private sector. The author shows that the public sector industries’ labour productivity growth was significantly faster than that of the private sector industries. Strikingly, he also finds that the state-owned industries were narrowing their productivity gap with their US counterparts at a significantly faster rate than the private sector industries. He concludes that it is possible that public ownership had - in the historical period investigated - a long-term positive effect on these industries.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 英国民众普遍认为二战后英国国有企业在走下坡路。本书通过展现一个事实，就规模不断扩大的国有企业劳动生产率数据而言，情况显然不是这样的。这本书将1954—1979年间五家经营状况良好的国有企业的劳动生产率与英国24家资本密集型，大量生产的私营企业生产数据进行比较。作者通过对两者的分析，表明了国有企业的劳动生产率增长速度明显比私营企业要快。令人称奇的是，他同样发现英国的国有企业正以明显比私营企业快的速度缩短与美国国有企业劳动生产力方面的差距。通过总结，他认为在特定的历史时期内，公有制完全有可能对这些企业的经济发展产生长期的积极影响。(Susie)

Awards/获奖情况：‘The merits of the work include a critical examination of the conventional wisdom that British nationalised companies "failed" and the rejection of this standard view; the use of a highly original method, based on historical evidence, to examine the productivity performance of British industries; scrupulous treatment of the industrial statistics and a quite exemplary, path-breaking, approach to international productivity comparisons; a theory of industrial performance which makes full use of the latest theory, while situating industries in their social and political context.’ – John Grahl, University of North London, UK

‘Iordanoglou has carried out a very significant piece of work. His basic idea of comparing the growth rate of productivity in the public and private sectors over a 25-year period provides a very useful method of approaching the bigger question of the relative efficiency of public enterprise . . . The book deserves wide distribution.’ – John Calvert, Labour / Le Travail

About the Author/作者介绍： CHRISAFIS H. IORDANOGLOU是希腊克里特大学经济系的客座讲师。

Chrisafis H. Iordanoglou is Visiting Lecturer in the Department of Economics at the University of Crete, Greece.

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