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The world's first railway system

Casson, Mark, 1945-

The world's first railway system enterprise, competition, and regulation on the railway network in Victorian Britain / [electronic resource] : Mark Casson. - Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2009. - 1 online resource (544 p.) : ill.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

This text presents a history of the British railway system written from a modern economic perspective. It uses counterfactual analysis to construct an alternative network to represent the most efficient alternative rail network that could have been constructed given what was known at the time.

9780191707469 (ebook) : No price


Railroads and state--History--Great Britain--19th century.
Railroads--Economic aspects--Great Britain.

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