The past week has seen renewed calls for the nationalisation of utilities, coming amid reports of underperformance at some water firms and surveys showing public scepticism about the wider industry’s impact on society. James Wallin asks whether we are making it too easy for under-researched renationalisation policies to capture the public imagination, and looks at how a defence can be mounted.
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