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- Title
RECENT DISCUSSIONS ON RAILWAY MANAGEMENT IN PRUSSIA.
- Authors
Taussig, F.W.
- Abstract
The article focuses on various papers which discuss railway management in Prussia, Germany. From one source and another the administration of the state railways of Prussia has been attacked on various points--as to the mechanical condition of the railways, as to the organization of the working force and the efficiency of the administrative machinery, and, finally, as to the training of the higher officials. The whole discussion seems to have begun with some articles published in the journal "National Zeitung" of Berlin in the summer and autumn of 1891. These articles attacked the state railways for inferiority in mechanical matters, and for a supposedly detrimental predominance, in the general management, of administrators having only a legal training. The general impression left on the outsider is that there have been some engineering and mechanical mistakes in the Prussian administration. But, doubtless, they have been exaggerated; and doubtless it would be difficult to make out any clear connection between them.
- Subjects
PRUSSIA (Germany); GERMANY; RAILROAD management; GOVERNMENT ownership of railroads; PUBLIC utilities; TRANSPORTATION
- Publication
Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1894, Vol 9, Issue 1, p77
- ISSN
0033-5533
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/1883635