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

by Mark Casson

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.

This is the first history of the British railway system written from a modern economic perspective. It uses conterfactual analysis to construct an alternaive...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199213976
• ISBN13: 9780199213979
• Release Date: November 2009
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 558 Pages
• Weight: 2.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.3" x 9.2"