Economic ideas regarding the urban water supply service in The nineteenth century britain

Ideas económicas en torno al servicio de abastecimiento urbano de agua en la Gran Bretaña del siglo XIX

José Luis Ramos Gorostiza () and Ana Rosado Cubero ()
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José Luis Ramos Gorostiza: Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Departamento de Historia e Instituciones Económicas I., https://www.ucm.es/deaeh
Ana Rosado Cubero: Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Departamento de Historia e Instituciones Económicas I., https://www.ucm.es/deaeh

No 13-03, Documentos de trabajo de la Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Empresariales from Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Empresariales

Abstract: By the mid-nineteenth century, along with other network infrastructurestypical of the Second Industrial Revolution, began to take shape the modern system of water supply. The purpose of this paper is to examine the major economic ideas surrounding the beginnings of this new urban service in Britain during the second half of the nineteenth century, which marked a starting point for future analytical developments. First, the socioeconomic importance of improvement of public health through an intensive use of running water. Second, the emergence of the concept of natural monopoly. And finally, the debate about the organization of service management. This interesting case gives us the opportunity to observe the interaction, in both directions, between facts and economic ideas.

Keywords: Urban water supply; Great Britain; Public health; Natural monopoly; History of economic thought; Abastecimiento urbano de agua; Gran Bretaña; Salud pública; Monopolio natural; Historia del pensamiento económico. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: B00 B10 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 25 pages
Date: 2013
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