Prophets of Regulation

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

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.

• * 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