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020 _a9780191707469 (ebook) :
_cNo price
040 _aStDuBDS
_beng
_cStDuBDS
_dBD-SySUS
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050 4 _aHE3018
082 0 4 _a385.094109034
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100 1 _aCasson, Mark,
_d1945-
245 1 4 _aThe world's first railway system
_h[electronic resource] :
_benterprise, competition, and regulation on the railway network in Victorian Britain /
_cMark Casson.
260 _aOxford :
_bOxford University Press,
_c2009.
300 _a1 online resource (544 p.) :
_bill.
520 8 _aThis 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.
588 _aDescription based on print version record.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
650 0 _aRailroads and state
_zGreat Britain
_xHistory
_y19th century.
650 0 _aRailroads
_xEconomic aspects
_zGreat Britain.
776 0 8 _iPrint version
_z9780199213979
856 4 0 _3Oxford scholarship online
_uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199213979.001.0001
942 _2Dewey Decimal Classification
_ceBooks
999 _c39306
_d39306