Essays in Transportation in Honour of W. T. Jackman

Toronto, Ontario:: The University of Toronto Press, 1941. A clean, square, tight copy. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. Political Economy Series, No. 11. Includes papers on: Railway Finance; Urban Transportation; Canadian Waterways; Regulation of Transportation; British Railways Act of 1921; etc. Tables. Bibliographical references. Index. Includes a list of the published writings of Professor W. T. Jackman. Bound in the original red cloth. This copy is from the library of, and bears the small ownership signature of Ernest W. Williams, Jr., Ph.D. Dr. Williams was Professor of Transportation in the School of Business, Columbia University. He authored: Freight Transportation in the Soviet Union Including Comparisons with the United States; Economics of Transportation (with Marvin L. Fair); Transportation and Logistics (with Marvin L. Fair); The Outlook for Domestic Air Transport; The Outlook for The Railroad Industry; The Regulation of Rail-Motor Rate Competition; Liner Conferences in the Container Age: U. S. Policy at Sea (with Gunnar K. Sletmo); Manpower -- A Prime Resource; etc. Williams edited The Future of American Transportation. He served as a consultant to various government agencies including the Bureau of the Budget, Office of Defense Mobilization, and Department of Commerce. Dr. Williams was honored with the Distinguished Member Award from the Transportation and Public Utilities Group (TPUG) of the American Economic Association (AEA). . Signed by Ernest W. Williams. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good condition./No dust jacket.. 8vo. ix, 167pp..