About the author -- Title page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Tables and figures -- Table 2.1 Changes in salaries of directors following privatization -- Table 4.1 Privatization proceeds and left parties in power in European countries during the 1990s -- Table 4.2 Government support (loans) and share purchases of nationalized banks -- Table 5.1 Multinationals that have withdrawn from the Latin American water sector -- Table 7.1 An evaluation of the effectiveness of different forms of public ownership in achieving desired objectives -- Table 7.2 Schematic depiction of public ownership types by economic activity -- Table 9.1 Structure of the electricity power generation and distribution network in Denmark -- Figure 2.1 Ownership of share capital in the UK's quoted public limited companies, 1963-2008 -- Figure 9.1 Wind power electricity generation (MW) in Denmark, 1986-2008 -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: an unexpected guest - the return of public ow­nership -- In search of an alternative discourse -- Some definitional issues: public rather than common ownership? -- Part One: Public ownership and its discontents -- 1 

So, who were the winners out of privatization? -- Table 2.1 Changes in salaries of directors following privatization -- The globalization of privatization -- Figure 2.1 Ownership of share capital in the UK's quoted public limited companies, 1963-2008 -- Scaling up privatization to a global policy paradigm -- The ongoing politics of privatization: continuing struggles to reclaim the economy -- 3 

'Twenty-first-century socialism' and the Bolivarian participatory process -- Recovering sovereignty of natural resources: nationalization in Bolivia under Morales -- Renationalization and the prospects for economic democracy -- Conclusions -- 6 

Decentred public ownership and institutional supports in the emergence of the Danish wind energy sector -- Table 9.1 Structure of the electricity power generation and distribution network in Denmark -- Emergent tensions, scalar politics and the broader geographies of renewable energy discourse -- Figure 9.1 Wind power electricity generation in Denmark, 1986-2008 -- Alternative futures, deliberative decision-making and the cooperative ethos -- Conclusions -- Conclusion -- Beyond twentieth-century utopias to an open and deliberative politics of public ownership -- A commitment to decentred and dispersed economic decision-making -- Continuing to struggle 'in and against' the state -- Remaking the case for public ownership -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About Zed Books.