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Name: Prophets of regulation
Author: Thomas K. McCraw

📘 Prophets of regulation by Thomas K. McCraw

Four barons of regulation, the complex relationship between business and government, are profiled with insight toward their individual influence on their agencies. Analyzing these men as "independent social force[s]" questions the validity of personal regulatory failure versus institutional regulatory failure, and why regulation is still an active part of government today.

First publish date: 1984

Authors: Thomas K. McCraw

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