The Best Description of the Economic Benefits of the Railroads

question 36

Multiple Choice

The best description of the economic benefits of the railroads (RRs) is:

• A) RRs saved about 3 percent of GNP over what it would have cost to ship goods and people by alternative methods.
• B) U.S. GNP was reached about 20 years earlier with RRs than it would have been reached had RRs not been developed.
• C) U.S. GNP was reached about 40 years earlier with RRs than it would have been reached had RRs not been developed.
• D) Alternative forms of transport could have shipped goods and people for the same cost or less than the RRs did, and therefore, RRs generated no extra economic growth.

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