Whose Utility?

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English

Open University Press
15 June 1994

Consumerism; Central government policies; Privatisation; Public ownership & nationalisation; Water industries

An in-depth analysis of the impact of public utility privatization on ordinary consumers. This text traces the history of energy and water privatization and documents the community and consumer sectors' various attempts to influence the structure of privatization and regulation. It provides data on the energy and water utilities over the first period of privatization and shows that the benefits and costs of privatization have not been shared equally. Low income consumers have been particularly adversly affected and the regressive outcomes of privatization have undercut the gains that domestic comsumers have made in some areas of service provision. Concluding with an overview of the British experiment of energy and water privatization, the author argues that the privatization settlements reached by successive Conservative governments with the privatized utility companies are seriously flawed, and that the British model of privatization is inappropriate to the domain of essential public utility service.

By: ERNST
Imprint: Open University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 151mm, Spine: 19mm
Weight: 400g
ISBN: 9780335192670
ISBN 10: 033519267X
Pages: 240
Publication Date: 15 June 1994
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Out of Print

The process and structure of public utility privatization in Britain public utilities services and regulation objectives and outcomes of the privatization of public utilities prices and tariff structures the management of debt and disconnection consumer protection and representation public utility privatization in perspective - policy and paradigm change