The World's First Railway System: Enterprise, Competition, and Regulation on the Railway Network in Victorian Britain
Author:   Mark Casson (Professor of Economics, University of Reading)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
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Pages:   558
Publication Date:   10 September 2009
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Mark Casson (Professor of Economics, University of Reading)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 16.20cm , Height: 3.20cm , Length: 24.00cm
Weight:   1.098kg
ISBN:  

9780199213979


ISBN 10:   0199213976
Pages:   558
Publication Date:   10 September 2009
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Preface and acknowledgements 1: Introduction and Summary 2: Railways in the Victorian Economy 3: The Counterfactual Network 4: Regional Comparisons 5: Joint Lines 6: Regulation 7: Business Strategies and their Effects 8: Conclusions Bibliography Appendices 1. Deposited plans 2. Notes on the Local and Personal Acts tabulated in Chapter 2 3. Network geometry 4. The Counterfactual Network: Route descriptions 5. Analysis of Hubs 6. Excerpts from the Counterfactual Timetable 7. A Formal Model of Victorian Railway Regulation

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The high quality of the methodology and bibliography of this volume reflect its academic origins...well worth careful study. * Today's Railways *


The high quality of the methodology and bibliography of this volume reflect its academic origins...well worth careful study. Today's Railways


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Mark Casson is Professor of Economics at the University of Reading, Director of the Centre for Institutional Performance, Leverhulme Major Research Fellow in the Economics of Networks 2006-9), President of the Association of Business Historians (2007-9), and Chairman of the Business Enterprise Heritage Trust. His previous books include Information and Organization (1997), The Entrepreneur: An Economic Theory (new ed., 2003) and The Future of the Multinational Enterprise (with Peter Buckley) (new ed., 2004). He is co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of Entrepreneurship (OUP, 2006).

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