The World's First Railway System
Author | : Mark Casson |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 556 |
Release | : 2009-09-10 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780199213979 |
ISBN-13 | : 0199213976 |
Rating | : 4/5 (976 Downloads) |
Download or read book The World's First Railway System written by Mark Casson and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2009-09-10 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.