Enterprise Denied: Origins of the Decline of American Railroads, 1897-1917

by Albro Martin

Book Overview

Winner of the Columbia University Prize in Economic History in Honor of Allan Nevins. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231083629
• ISBN13: 9780231083621
• Release Date: January 1971
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 402 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.

Customer Reviews

A great book

Before deregulation, many blamed the railroads' problems on poor management that failed to keep up with a changing society. Martin shows that the real problem was that the railroads were so overregulated that they could not respond to change. His later book, "Railroads Triumphant," is the perfect mate to this one.