Albert Fink, Cost of Railroad Transportation: Railroad Accounts and Governmental Regulation of Railroad Tariffs (Louisville: John P. Morton, 1875)
Alfred Chandler, The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business (Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press, 1997), 116-20.
Albert Fink, Argument before the Committee on Commerce . . . on the Reagan Bill . . . , Washington, January 14, 15, 16, 1880 (New York: Russell Brothers Printers, 1880), 7.
George H. Miller, Railroads and Granger Laws (Madison: Univ. of Wisconsin Press, 1971), 140-60.
Ripley, Railroads: Rates and Regulation, is the classic contemporary account of the making of rates.
Ripley, Railroads: Rates and Regulation, 106-8.
Ripley, Railroads: Rates and Regulation, 108.
Richard A. Posner, Natural Monopoly and Its Regulation, Stanford Law Review 21, no. 3 (Feb. 1969): 570.
Joseph Schumpeter et al., "Railway Rate Making: A Discussion," American Economic Review 4 (March 1914): 81.