caa a22 4500 386369720 CHVBK 20180307111952.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130s1989 xx s 000 0 eng 10.2307/3116038 doi S0007680500067611 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.2307/3116038 Miranti Paul J. Paul J. Miranti, Jr., is assistant professor of accounting at the School of Business, Rutgers University. The Mind's Eye of Reform: The ICC's Bureau of Statistics and Accounts and a Vision of Regulation, 1887-1940 [Elektronische Daten] [Paul J. Miranti] By examining the relationship between measurement and regulation at the Interstate Commerce Commission between 1887 and 1940, the following article sheds light on a little-studied component of the commission's work. It argues that the nature of the accounting and statistical tools used by the ICC had an impact on the regulatory process, specifically that the difficulties encountered in the development of accurate and relevant railroad statistics often undermined the agency's ability to achieve its regulatory goals. At the same time, a changing economic, political, and social environment affected the regulators' perception of the type of data necessary to gain control of the industry's structure. Copyright © The President and Fellows of Harvard College 1989 Business History Review Cambridge University Press 63/3(1989), 469-509 0007-6805 63:3<469 1989 63 BHR https://doi.org/10.2307/3116038 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.2307/3116038 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Miranti Paul J. Paul J. Miranti, Jr., is assistant professor of accounting at the School of Business, Rutgers University NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Business History Review Cambridge University Press 63/3(1989), 469-509 0007-6805 63:3<469 1989 63 BHR CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge