Mark Casson

Gebundenes Buch

World's First Railway System

Enterprise, Competition, and Regulation on the Railway Network in Victorian Britain

Beschreibung

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.

Target group: academics and researchers of Transport History, Economic History, and Management Studies; those involved in transport policy-making and rail enthusiasts.

Autor

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).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 558
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. November 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 160mm x 36mm
• Gewicht: 1102g
• ISBN-13: 9780199213979
• ISBN-10: 0199213976
• Artikelnr.: 26580035