CONTENTS Tables and figures vi Acknowledgements vii Introduction: an unexpected guest - the return of public ownership. i PART ONE Public ownership and its discontents 1 Public ownership as state ownership: the post-1945 legacy 11 2 The neoliberal onslaught and the politics of privatization. .38 3 Coming to terms with Hayek: markets, planning and economic democracy 62 PART TWO The return of public ownership 4 Financial crisis and the rediscovery of the state in the neo- liberal heartland 85 5 Public ownership and an alternative political economy in Latin America . 108 6 Alternative globalizations and the discourse of the commons . 123 PART THREE Remaking public ownership 7 Remaking and rescaling public ownership 145 8 State ownership, deliberative democracy and elite interests in Norway's oil bonanza . 173 9 Decentred public ownership and the Danish wind power revolution 192 Conclusion Notes 221 Bibliography 229 Index 245