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State-Owned Enterprise in the Western Economies

Edited by Raymond Vernon and Yair Aharoni
Reviewed by William Diebold, Jr.
Summer 1981
State-Owned Enterprise in the Western Economies
Edited by Raymond Vernon and Yair Aharoni
St. Martin's
1981
203 pp.
$27.50
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Everybody complains about government corporations, but systematic knowledge about them is scarce. The short papers in this volume-which vary greatly in approach-provide a good summary of the issues of fact, theory and practice which need attention.

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