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Prophets of Regulation / Edition 1

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ISBN-10:: 0674716086
ISBN-13:: 9780674716087
Pub. Date:: 10/15/1986
Publisher:: Harvard University Press

ISBN-10:: 0674716086
ISBN-13:: 9780674716087
Pub. Date:: 10/15/1986
Publisher:: Harvard University Press

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Overview

“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.

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ISBN-13:	9780674716087
Publisher:	Harvard University Press
Publication date:	10/15/1986
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	416
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.25(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

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

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

What People are Saying About This

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...[McGraw's] book will become a seminal work in the study of American regulation and reform.

Alan Brinkley

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Editorial 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

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

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

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