Governments everywhere, notably in Eastern Europe, are bent on selling public assets to private investors. They have a lot to learn from the muddled sale of the British electricity industry, now under way.
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How not to sell public assets. Nature 346, 593–594 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1038/346593a0
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