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Michael A. Crew
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Graduate School of Management, Rutgers University, Newark, USA
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Paul R. Kleindorfer
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The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA
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Any Chainnan of the British Post Office dwells in the shadow of Rowland Hill, and, if he were an honest man, he probably from time to time, while singing the praises of Rowland Hill, as is his due, thinks a silent thought of sympathy for his predecessor Colonel Maberly, the head of the Post Office, the Champion of established orthodoxy, the leader of the Professionals, who had to endure the irresistible force of Hill's arguments combined with his skills as a pamphleteer, agitator, and political propagandist. My favorite passage of the book Royal Mail by Martin Daunton (1985) shows how much the Post Office of the day needed a Rowland Hill to challenge Colonel Maberly and all that he stood for. I quote from a passage describing how the Colonel, when he arrived at about 11:00 a.m. and while enjoying his breakfast, listened to his private secretary reading the morning's correspondence. Daunton records: The Colonel, still half engaged with his private correspondence, would hear enough to make him keep up a rumring commentary of disparaging grunts, "Pooh! stuff! upon my soul!" etc.
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
Pages i-xviii
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- Michael A. Crew, Paul R. Kleindorfer, Martin J. Daunton
Pages 1-16
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- James I. Campbell Jr., Roger Tabor
Pages 17-36
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- Michael A. Crew, Paul R. Kleindorfer, David de Meza
Pages 37-60
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- Ian Dobbs, Paul Richards, Norman Ireland
Pages 61-91
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- Saul Estrin, David de Meza, Charles K. Rowley
Pages 93-113
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- Michael L. Wachter, Jeffrey M. Perloff, Frank Rodriguez
Pages 115-140
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- J. R. Norsworthy, Show-Ling Jang, Wei-Ming Shi, Thomas A. Abbott, Donald J. O’Hara
Pages 141-175
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- Ulrich Stumpf, Frank A. Scott Jr.
Pages 177-190
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- Roger Sherman, Michael R. Frierman
Pages 191-218
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- John C. Panzar, Michael Waterson
Pages 219-231
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- David E. Treworgy, James A. Waddell, Robert M. Pike
Pages 253-273
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Editors and Affiliations
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Graduate School of Management, Rutgers University, Newark, USA
Michael A. Crew
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The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA
Paul R. Kleindorfer