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The Political Economy of American Transportation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 February 2015

Mark Rose
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Throughout its history, the free market system has been held back, not so much by its own economic deficiencies as Marxists would have it, but because of its reliance on political goodwill for its infrastructure.

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Special Section on American Transportation
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Enterprise & Society , Volume 10 , Issue 1 , March 2009 , pp. 90 - 97
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Copyright © The Author(s) 2009. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the Business History Conference. All rights reserved.

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