Nationalization and Denationalization in the 19th and 20th Centuries : Expectations, Processes and Results

(Official Program of the Conference to be held on October 11 and 12, 2001 at the Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières)

Thursday, October 11, 2001

9 :00 am: Registration at the Conference

9 :30 am: Opening of the Conference

- Speech by Alain Maire, Vice-Rector to Graduate Studies and Research

- Speech by Claude Bellavance, Director of the Centre d’Études québécoises

- General introduction to the Conference by Alain Beltran, Martin Chick and Pierre Lanthier

First Theme: National Experiences

10:30 am: Nationalisations in Spain: from the political agenda to the need for efficiency

- Lina Galvez-Munoz (University of Reading) and Francisco Comin (Universidad de Alcalá de Henares)

Dictatorship and Foreign Business: Nationalisation of Foreign Multinationals in Franco’s Spain, 1940s and 1950s

- Pedro Pablo Ortuñez (Universidad de Valladolid)

La nationalisation des entreprises concessionaires des chemins de fer en Espagne : processus et bilan

12 :00 pm : Lunch

1 :30 pm : Italy and Portugal: model cases or original experiences ?

- Nuno Valerio, Ana Bela Nunes, Carlos Bastien (Institute of Economics and Management of the Technical University of Lisbon)

Nationalization and denationalizations in Portugal (19^th-20^th centuries): a historical appraisal

- Pier Angelo Toninelli (Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca)

The rise and fall of public enterprise : the case of Italy in the 20th century

3:00 pm: A European Comparison

- Judith Clifton and Daniel Diaz Fuentes (Universidad de Cantabria)

Diversity of nationalisation and the EU process of integration and denationalisation

4:00 pm: Second theme: To indemnize or to confiscate ?

- Catherine Vuillermot (Université de Franche-Comté)

La nationalisation de l’électricité en France, en 1946 : le problème de l’indemnisation

- Aron Shai (Tel-Aviv University)

The indirect nationalization of foreign firms in China in the 1950s

Friday, October 12, 2001

Third theme: sectorial experiences

9:30 am: Electricity between the private and the public sectors

- Henry Vivian Nelles (York University)

Hydro and After: The Canadian Experience with the Organization, Nationalization and Deregulation of Electrical Utilities

- Claude Bellavance (Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières)

D’une nationalisation à l’autre. L’expérience du régime mixte dans le secteur de l’électricité au Québec (1944-1963)

- Martin Chick (University of Edinburgh)

Monopoly pricing and investment in the nationalised electricity industry in France and Britain, 1945-1973

12:00 pm: Lunch

1:30 pm: Computer and nuclear industries: which status to give to new sectors?

- Pierre Mounier-Kuhn (Université de Paris-Sorbonne)

Nationalisations et informatique en France : de l’action sur l’environnement économique au dirigisme industriel (1936-2000)

- Warren Young (Bar Ilan University)

Atomic Energy: from ‘Public’ to ‘Private’ Power – the US, UK and Japan in Comparative Perspective

3 :00 pm : Conclusion to the Conference

- Dominique Barjot (Université de Paris-IV Sorbonne)