Planning the French Canals: The “Becquey Plan” of 1820–1822
研究了法国运河时代的关键规划：贝凯计划，该计划由行政官员推动，旨在通过国家主导的运河网络促进经济增长和商业精神，但最终政府承担了高昂成本和风险。
France's canal age was largely the outgrowth of the plan proposed by François Becquey, the state administrator who orchestrated a successful campaign to convince influential Frenchmen that a nationwide canal network was one of the essential tasks of their generation. As Becquey originally conceived his plan, canal building would directly contribute to economic growth and help foster a spirit of business enterprise. In the end he had to settle for a scheme under which the government paid a steep price to a handful of financial consortia for the right to assume all the risks and costs of building and operating the system itself.