Railways as Patient Capital
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- Oliver Lewis & Avner Offer, 2022. "Railways as patient capital," Oxford Review of Economic Policy, Oxford University Press and Oxford Review of Economic Policy Limited, vol. 38(2), pages 260-277.
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Railroads; privatisation; project evaluation; public services; scope of government;All these keywords.
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