01418nam a2200289 a 4500 EDZ0000072801 StDuBDS 20150804193923.0 m||||||||d|||||||| cr|||||||||||| 090326s2009 enka fo 001 0 eng|d 9780191707469 (ebook) : No price StDuBDS StDuBDS HE3018 385.094109034 22 Casson, Mark, 1945- The world's first railway system [electronic resource] : enterprise, competition, and regulation on the railway network in Victorian Britain / Mark Casson. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2009. 1 online resource (544 p.) : ill. This text presents a history of the British railway system written from a modern economic perspective. It uses counterfactual 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. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references and index. Railroads and state Great Britain History 19th century. Railroads Economic aspects Great Britain. Print version 9780199213979 Oxford scholarship online http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199213979.001.0001 36747 36747