Railroads and Land Grant Policy: A Study in Government Intervention

ISBN-13: 9781587981548 / Angielski / Miękka / 1982 / 288 str.

Lloyd J. Mercer

Opis

Mercer (economics, U. of California at Santa Barbara) assesses the economic efficiency of the land grant subsidies to the large U.S. railroad systems in the 19th century. He limits his analysis to the relationship of the social and private rates of return on investment in the land grant railroads to