TY - BOOK AU - Casson,Mark TI - The world's first railway system: enterprise, competition, and regulation on the railway network in Victorian Britain SN - 9780191707469 (ebook) : AV - HE3018 U1 - 385.094109034 22 PY - 2009/// CY - Oxford PB - Oxford University Press KW - Railroads and state KW - Great Britain KW - History KW - 19th century KW - Railroads KW - Economic aspects N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index N2 - 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 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199213979.001.0001 ER -