Tracks across continents, paths through history
the economic dynamics of standardization in railway gauge
by Douglas J. Puffert
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"In Tracks across Continents, Paths through History, Douglas J. Puffert offers a global history of railway track gauge, examining early choices and the dynamic process of diversity and standardization that resulted. Drawing on the economic theory of path dependence, and grounded in economic, technical, and institutional realities, this innovative volume traces how early historical events, and even idiosyncratic personalities, have affected choices of gauge ever since, despite changing technology and understandings of what gauge is optimal. Puffert also uses this history to develop new insights in the theory of path dependence. Tracks across Continents, Paths through History will be essential reading for anyone interested in how history and economics inform each other."--BOOK JACKET.
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Tracks across continents, paths through history: the economic dynamics of standardization in railway gauge
2009, University of Chicago Press
in English
0226685098 9780226685090
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