The World's First Railway System: Enterprise, Competition, and Regulation on the Railway Network in Victorian Britain by Casson, Mark

The World's First Railway System: Enterprise, Competition, and Regulation on the Railway Network in Victorian Britain (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780199213979)

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Format: Hardcover
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The World's First Railway System: Enterprise, Competition, and Regulation on the Railway Network in Victorian Britain by Casson, Mark

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

$140.00
The World's First Railway System: Enterprise, Competition, and Regulation on the Railway Network in Victorian Britain by Casson, Mark

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

$140.00
Format: Hardcover
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The British railway network was a monument to Victorian private enterprise. Its masterpieces of civil engineering were emulated around the world. But its performance was controversial: praised for promoting a high density of lines, it was also criticised for wasteful duplication of routes.

Author: Mark Casson
ISBN-10: 0199213976
ISBN-13: 9780199213979
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Language: English
Published: 11/09/2009
Pages: 558
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 2.35lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.30w x 1.40d
By Mark Casson
By Mark Casson
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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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