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Railroads: Rates and Regulation

by William Z. Ripley

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  1. 1Preface
  2. 2Chapter I — The History of Transportation in the United States
  3. 3Chapter II — The Theory of Railroad Rates
  4. 4Chapter III — The Theory of Railroad Rates (Cont’d)
  5. 5Chapter IV — Rate Making in Practice
  6. 6Chapter V — Rate Making in Practice (Continued)
  7. 7Chapter VI — Personal Discrimination
  8. 8Chapter VII — Local Discrimination
  9. 9Chapter VIII — Problems of Routing
  10. 10Chapter IX — Freight Classification
  11. 11Chapter X — The Trunk Line Rate System: A Distance Tariff
  12. 12Chapter XI — Special Rate Problems: The Southern Basing Point Syste…
  13. 13Chapter XII — The Movement of Rates Since 1870; Rate Wars
  14. 14Chapter XIII — The Act to Regulate Commerce of 1887
  15. 15Chapter XIV — 1887-1905. Emasculation of the Law
  16. 16Chapter XV — The Elkins Amendments (1903): The Hepburn Act of 1906
  17. 17Chapter XVI — Effects of the Law of 1906; Judicial Interpretation,…
  18. 18Chapter XVII — The Mann-Elkins Act of 1910
  19. 19Chapter XVIII — The Commerce Court: The Freight Rate Advances of 1910
  20. 20Chapter XIX — The Long and Short Haul Clause: Transcontinental Rates
  21. 21Chapter XX — The Conflict of Federal and State Authority; Open Ques…
  22. 22Appendix I — Appendix II

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