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World's First Railway System Enterprise, Competition, and Regulation on the Railway Network in Victorian Britain

Hoofdkenmerken

Auteur:	Casson, Mark
Titel:	World's First Railway System Enterprise, Competition, and Regulation on the Railway Network in Victorian Britain
Uitgever:	Oxford University Press
ISBN:	9780199213979
Land van oorsprong:	United Kingdom
Prijs:	€ 167.63
Verschijningsdatum:	10-09-2009
Bericht:	Langere levertijd (2-3 weken)

Inhoudelijke kenmerken

Categorie:	Railway transport industries
Geogr.gebied:	British Isles
Periode:	c 1800 to c 1900
Geillustreerd:	Lithograph illustrations, figures, tables
Dewey code:	385.094109034

Technische kenmerken

Verschijningsvorm:	Hardback
Paginas:	558
Hoogte mm.:	240
Breedte mm.:	166
Dikte mm.:	32
Gewicht gr.:	1096

Inhoud:

This is the first history of the British railway system written from a modern economic perspective. It uses conterfactual 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 - the first time this has been done.