Scott E. Randolph

Associate Professor of Business Administration, Department of Business Administration & Management, University of Redlands, Chair, Department of Business Administration & Management, University of Redlands, Curator of the Collection, Erie Lackawanna Railroad Historical Society Collection

Transportation, regulation, Railways, Network Efficiency, Trade Organizations, Regulatory policy, Interstate commerce, Commodity Chains, Banking
Business Historians at Business Schools

I am engaged currently in two projects. The first is a long-term assessment of the 1913 Federal Valuation Act, a mostly-forgotten law that was intended to respond to the Supreme Court's assertion in Smyth v. Ames (171 U.S. 361), that railroad rates must be regulated in a scientific, or rational fashion and that regulations must not impede the right of corporations to earn a reasonable rate of return on invested capital. The second is a geo-spatial and financial analysis of the effect of the 1907 Bank Panic on state-chartered banks in the upper Great Plains.

Recent Presentations at BHC Annual Meetings