The world's first railway system : enterprise, competition, and regulation on the railway network in Victorian Britain /
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.
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
2009.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xvi, 523 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-366) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780191570414 0191570419 0191707465 9780191707469 |