《Alternative Tracks》是The Johns Hopkins University Press出版的圖書，作者是Gerald Berk
基本介紹
- 外文名：Alternative Tracks
- 作者：Gerald Berk
- 出版時間：1997年
- 出版社：The Johns Hopkins University Press
- 頁數：256 頁
- ISBN：9780801856365
- 定價：26.00 美元
- 裝幀：Paperback
- 叢書：The Johns Hopkins Series in Constitutional Thought
內容簡介
Alternative Tracks provides a novel interpretation of industrialization and political development in the United States. Focusing on the critical case of railroads, Gerald Berk shows that alternative forms of economic organization and governmental regulation existed in the late nineteenth century. Constitutional choices, not technological imperatives or economic interests, deter...(展開全部) Alternative Tracks provides a novel interpretation of industrialization and political development in the United States. Focusing on the critical case of railroads, Gerald Berk shows that alternative forms of economic organization and governmental regulation existed in the late nineteenth century. Constitutional choices, not technological imperatives or economic interests, determined the outcome in the twentieth century: a centralized industry regulated according to liberal principles of redistribution. Alternative Tracks reveals a nineteenth-century rival to this political economy—an equally efficient and more democratic system of regional railroads regulated according to republican principles.
