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).

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

• PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ; 1. Introduction and Summary ; 2. Railways in the Victorian Economy ; 3. The Counterfactual Network ; 4. Regional Comparisons ; 5. Joint Lines ; 6. Regulation ; 7. Business Strategies and their Effects ; 8. Conclusions ; BIBLIOGRAPHY ; APPENDICES ; 1. Deposited plans ; 2. Notes on the Local and Personal Acts tabulated in Chapter 2 ; 3. Network geometry ; 4. The Counterfactual Network: Route descriptions ; 5. Analysis of Hubs ; 6. Excerpts from the Counterfactual Timetable ; 7. A Formal Model of Victorian Railway Regulation

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).

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

• PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ; 1. Introduction and Summary ; 2. Railways in the Victorian Economy ; 3. The Counterfactual Network ; 4. Regional Comparisons ; 5. Joint Lines ; 6. Regulation ; 7. Business Strategies and their Effects ; 8. Conclusions ; BIBLIOGRAPHY ; APPENDICES ; 1. Deposited plans ; 2. Notes on the Local and Personal Acts tabulated in Chapter 2 ; 3. Network geometry ; 4. The Counterfactual Network: Route descriptions ; 5. Analysis of Hubs ; 6. Excerpts from the Counterfactual Timetable ; 7. A Formal Model of Victorian Railway Regulation

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).

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

• PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ; 1. Introduction and Summary ; 2. Railways in the Victorian Economy ; 3. The Counterfactual Network ; 4. Regional Comparisons ; 5. Joint Lines ; 6. Regulation ; 7. Business Strategies and their Effects ; 8. Conclusions ; BIBLIOGRAPHY ; APPENDICES ; 1. Deposited plans ; 2. Notes on the Local and Personal Acts tabulated in Chapter 2 ; 3. Network geometry ; 4. The Counterfactual Network: Route descriptions ; 5. Analysis of Hubs ; 6. Excerpts from the Counterfactual Timetable ; 7. A Formal Model of Victorian Railway Regulation