Infrastructure finance in Europe : insights into the history of water, transport, and telecommunications /
The social returns of investment in water, roads and railways are apparent in the long run, but this distant horizon poses problems to governments and investors. This volume explores the different historical paths to solving the problem of infrastructure finance in Europe, from the fall of the Roman...
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| Language: | English |
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
[2016]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: the history of European infrastructure finance
- Part I. The history of European infrastructure finance: from the Middle Ages to the present era
- Infrastructure financing in medieval Europe
- Infrastructure financing in the early modern age
- Infrastructure investments and the shaping of modern finance
- Part II. Water
- Corvée versus money in water infrastructure in the Alps
- The finance of local public goods at the onset of industrialization: water in Paris 1807-1925
- The finance of local public goods at the onset of industrialization: water in London 1582 to 1904
- Part III. Transport
- Paying for the first Italian motorways (1923-41)
- Railway financing before nationalization
- Railway financing
- Part IV. Telecommunications
- Role of the state in telecommunications infrastructure financing across Europe
- Financing telegraph infrastructures (1850-1900)
- The public private partnership in the Italian satellite telecommunication system design.