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Infrastructure Finance in Europe: Insights Into the History of Water, Transport, and Telecommunications

Infrastructure Finance in Europe: Insights Into the History of Water, Transport, and Telecommunications

Cassis, Youssef
de Luca, Giuseppe
Florio, Massimo

Hardcover

AccountingBusiness GeneralEconomics

ISBN10: 019871341X
ISBN13: 9780198713418
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: Mar 14 2016
Pages: 382
Weight: 1.55
Height: 0.60 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.30
Language: English
Funding infrastructure has always been a challenging issue in any country and at any time, yet the topic is still largely unexplored. The social returns of investment in water, roads, railways, or more recently telegraph or communication satellites are often apparent in the long run, but this distant horizon poses special problems to governments and investors. This volume provides a broad overview of the main financing solutions implemented in Europe to support infrastructures from the fall of the Roman Empire up to the end of the 20th century.

It explores the diverse historical paths pursued in order to solve the problem of infrastructure finance in various European countries, and draws upon the findings of an international and interdisciplinary research project. It brings together case studies by economic historians, economists, and engineers, and the clear taxonomy guides the reader through the financing solutions that have been developed to fund infrastructure over almost three thousand years. The volume is organized into four parts; after an introductory chapter by the editors, Part One offers 'horizontal' contributions that cover the history of European infrastructure finance. Parts Two, Three, and Four each focus on a single sector, namely water, transport, and telecommunications. The findings show how history can inform thinking on contemporary infrastructure problems.

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