Synopses & Reviews
Review
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 manipulatedthese traits to implement their policies.
Review
'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.'
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...[McGraw's] book will become a seminalwork in the study of American regulation and reform.
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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.
About the Author
Thomas K. McCrawis Straus Professor of Business History Emeritus at the <>Harvard Business School. His bookProphets of Regulationwas awarded the 1985 Pulitzer Prize in 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