Acknowledgements Introduction Part One: Monopoly and Coal 1. Monopoly, capitalism and the coal vend 2. Cartels and rationalization in the 1930s Part Two: Coal royalties 3. Royalty or rent: what's in a name? 4. Royalties: from private obstacle to public burden? Part Three: Cliometrics and coal 5. Returning to factor returns: the late nineteenth century coal industry 6. Returns to scale in the interwar coal industry 7. The diffusion of mechanical coal cutting Part Four: Towards privatization? 8. The commanding heights of public corporation economics 9. Privatization and property rights: from electricity to coal 10. Coal: the ultimate privatization Notes Reference Index.
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