The constitutional protection of capitalism
In 1945 a Labour government deployed Britain's national autonomy and parliamentary sovereignty to nationalise key industries and services such as coal, rail, gas and electricity, and to establish a publicly-owned National Health Service. This monograph argues that constitutional constraints stemming from economic and legal globalisation would now preclude such a programme. It contends that whilst no state has ever, or could ever, possess complete freedom of action, nonetheless the rise of the transnational corporation means that national autonomy is now siginificantly restricted. The book focu
1 online resource (xix, 200 pages)
9781847315595, 9781841138596, 9781472560698, 1847315593, 1841138592, 1472560698
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Electronic reproduction, [Place of publication not identified], HathiTrust Digital Library, 2011
University of Alberta Access (Unlimited Concurrent Users) from Bloomsbury