Mccraw: ∗prophets∗ Of Regulation (cloth) - Hardcover

MCCRAW, TK

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0674716078 ISBN 13: 9780674716070

Publisher: Harvard University Press, 1984

Synopsis

"There is properly no history, only biography," Emerson remarked, and in this ingenious book Thomas McGraw 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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Review:

A novel, stimulating approach...McGraw'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. McGraw skillfully melds their words and actions into a series of revealing intellectual portraits. McGraw 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. these traits to implement their policies. wrote extensively, even compulsively, about the theory and practice of regulation. McGraw skillfully melds their words and actions into a series of revealing intellectual portraits.

About the Author:

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

About this edition

• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Publication date: 1984
• ISBN 10: 0674716078
• ISBN 13: 9780674716070
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 416