In 1979, fresh from its general election victory, the Conservative government began formulating plans to deregulate bus services and privatise the companies ope

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Using the tools of social cost-benefit analysis, Florio assesses the effect of privatization on consumers, taxpayers, firms, shareholders, and workers.

This is Volume II of Professor Parker's authoritative Official History of Privatisation, covering the period from the re-election of Margaret Thatcher in 1987 t