The World's First Railway System: Enterprise, Competition, and Regulation on the Railway Network in Victorian Britain

ISBN-13: 9780199213979 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 448 str.

Mark Casson

Opis

The British railway network was a monument to Victorian private enterprise. Its masterpieces of civil engineering were emulated around the world. But its performance was controversial: praised for promoting a high density of lines, it was also criticised for wasteful duplication of routes.

Recenzje

The high quality of the methodology and bibliography of this volume reflect its academic origins...well worth careful study.

O autorze

Mark Casson is Professor of Economics at the University of Reading, Director of the Centre for Institutional Performance, Leverhulme Major Research Fellow in the Economics of Networks 2006-9), President of the Association of Business Historians (2007-9), and Chairman of the Business Enterprise Heritage Trust. His previous books include Information and Organization (1997), The Entrepreneur: An Economic Theory (new ed., 2003) and The Future of the Multinational Enterprise (with Peter Buckley) (new ed., 2004). He is co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of Entrepreneurship (OUP, 2006).