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10. Regulation of local utilities through the franchise. (King, Regulation of Municipal Utilities, part ii.)
11. Regulation of local utilities through the utility commission. (King, Regulation of Municipal Utilities, part iii.)
12. Standards of service for local utilities. (Annals, vol. liii, pages 292-306.)
13. The case for municipal ownership. (King, Regulation of Municipal Utilities; Thompson, Municipal Ownership)
14. The case against municipal ownership. (King, Regulation of Municipal Utilities; Porter, Dangers of Municipal Ownership.)
15. Early development of railroads in the United States. (Coman, Industrial History of the United States, pages 232-248; Bogart, Economic History of the United States, chapters xxiv and xxv; Lessons in Community and National Life, Series C, pages 217-233.)
16. Geographical distribution of railroads. (Semple, American History and its Geographic Conditions, chapter xvii.)
17. Combinations in the railroad industry. (Lessons in Community and National Life, Series A, pages 219-224; Bogart, Economic History of the United States, chapter xxix; Johnson, American Railway Transportation, chapter iii.)
18. Rate-making. (Johnson, American Railway Transportation, chapter xx; Bullock, Elements of Economics, pages 212-217.)
19. Physical valuation of the railroads. (Annals, vol. lxiii, pages 182-190.)
20. Railroad regulation and the courts. (Johnson, American Railway Transportation, chapter xxvii.)
21. War-time control of railroads in the United States. (Annals, vol. lxxxvi, all; Dixon, War Administration of the Railways in the United States and Great Britain, part i.)
22. Report of the Interstate Commerce Commission upon the desirability of government ownership of railroads in the United States. (Cleveland and Schafer, Democracy in Reconstruction, pages 382-396.)
23. War-time control of railroads in Great Britain. (Dixon, War Administration of the Railways in the United States and Great Britain, part ii.)
24. Railroad management in England and France. (Johnson, American Railway Transportation, chapter xxiii.)
25. Railroad management in Italy and Germany. (Johnson, American Railway Transportation, chapter xxiv.)
FOR CLASSROOM DISCUSSION
26. The success with which public utilities in your community have been regulated.
27. Should the franchise-granting power in your state be still further restricted?
28. The success of municipal ownership in your locality.
29. The relation of "stock watering" or "overcapitalization" to high profits. (See Taussig, Principles of Economics, vol ii, page 385.)
30. Is public ownership of railroads more practicable under a democratic or under an autocratic form of government?