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Prophets of Regulation Thomas K. McCraw

Prophets of Regulation By Thomas K. McCraw

Prophets of Regulation by Thomas K. McCraw

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In this ingenious book Thomas McCraw unfolds the history of four powerful men: Charles Francis Adams, Louis D. Brandeis, James M. Landis, and Alfred E. Kahn. The absorbing stories he tells make this a book that will appeal across a wide spectrum of academic disciplines and to all readers interested in history, biography, and Americana.

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Prophets of Regulation by Thomas K. McCraw

There is properly no history, only biography, Emerson remarked, and in this ingenious book Thomas McCraw unfolds the history of four powerful men: Charles Francis Adams, Louis D. Brandeis, James M. Landis, and Alfred E. Kahn. The absorbing stories he tells make this a book that will appeal across a wide spectrum of academic disciplines and to all readers interested in history, biography, and Americana.

Prophets of Regulation Reviews

A novel, stimulating approach... McCraw's effort to clarify the nature of regulation by carefully integrating biography, history of ideas and regulatory strategy pays handsome dividends... Each of these 'prophets' wrote extensively, even compulsively, about the theory and practice of regulation. McCraw skillfully melds their words and actions into a series of revealing intellectual portraits. * Washington Post Book World *
McCraw explains sophisticated economic theory in accessible terms, and he has a historian's knack for isolating such basic American traits as a mistrust of big business and for showing how regulators manipulated these traits to implement their policies. * New York Times Book Review *
An exceptionally good book on the development of government regulatory traditions in twentieth-century America, which illuminates as well the broader course of modern reform... [McCraw's] book will become a seminal work in the study of American regulation and reform. -- Alan Brinkley

About Thomas K. McCraw

Thomas K. McCraw was Straus Professor of Business History Emeritus at Harvard Business School and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for History.

Table of Contents

* Adams and the Sunshine Commission * State to Federal, Railroads to Trusts * Brandeis and the Origins of the FTC * Antitrust, Regulation, and the FTC * Landis and the Statecraft of the SEC * Ascent, Decline, and Rebirth * Kahn and the Economist's Hour * Regulation Reconsidered * Notes * Acknowledgments * Index

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CIN0674716086G
9780674716087
0674716086
Prophets of Regulation by Thomas K. McCraw
Thomas K. McCraw
Used - Good
Paperback
Harvard University Press
19861114
416
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