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    <title>world's first railway system</title>
    <subTitle>enterprise, competition, and regulation on the railway network in Victorian Britain</subTitle>
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    <namePart>Casson, Mark</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1945-</namePart>
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    <publisher>Oxford University Press</publisher>
    <dateIssued>2009</dateIssued>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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    <extent>1 online resource (544 p.) : ill.</extent>
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  <abstract>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.</abstract>
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  <note type="statement of responsibility">Mark Casson.</note>
  <note>Includes bibliographical references and index.</note>
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    <topic>Railroads and state</topic>
    <geographic>Great Britain</geographic>
    <topic>History</topic>
    <temporal>19th century</temporal>
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    <topic>Railroads</topic>
    <topic>Economic aspects</topic>
    <geographic>Great Britain</geographic>
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