Why public ownership? Urban utilities in London, 1870-1914
<p>Private gas and water companies received parliamentary permission to act as incorporated companies in the early 1800s. Then, the idea that gas and water would be anything other than a luxury was unthinkable, and government regulated by entry. But by the 1830s the problems with competition w...
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2003
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