Selling The Family Silver

Selling the Family Silver is, moreover, the controversial ‘warts and all’ story of Britain’s privatization programme, past and future. The chairmen, the cheats, the fanfares and the flops – from all sides of the political, social and economic coin, the author examines the contentious demise of nationalization and the real effectiveness of the private giants that have replaced it, finally posing the fundamental question: Has privatization worked?