John Vickers and Vincent Wright, in West EL~J-In Europe pean Politics (Oct. 1988), Gainsborough House, 11 Gainsbor-
ough Rd., London El 1 1RS England.
From London to Lisbon and Rome, West- ern Europe's political leaders have been putting more and more government-owned enterprises on the auction block during the 1980s. "Privatization" has "swept the world," exults Britain's Conser- vative finance minister, Nigel Lawson.
Yet, Vickers and Wright, both British scholars, note that...