The World's First Railway System

The World's First Railway System
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Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages : 556
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ISBN-10 : 9780199213979
ISBN-13 : 0199213976
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Book Synopsis The World's First Railway System by : Mark Casson

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.


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