Prophets of Regulation

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Harvard University Press, Oct 15, 1986 - Biography & Autobiography - 416 pages
"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.
 

Contents

Adams and the Sunshine Commission
1
State to Federal Railroads to Trusts
57
Brandeis and the Origins of the FTC
80
Antitrust Regulation and the FTC
143
Landis and the Statecraft of the SEC
153
Ascent Decline and Rebirth
210
Kahn and the Economists Hour
222
Regulation Reconsidered
300
Notes
311
Acknowledgments
373
Index
375
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About the author (1986)

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

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