Thomas K. McCraw (1940–2012)
Forfatter af Prophet of Innovation: Joseph Schumpeter and Creative Destruction
Om forfatteren
Thomas K. McCraw is Straus Professor of Business History Emeritus at the Harvard Business School. His book Prophets of Regulation (Harvard) was awarded the 1985 Pulitzer Prize in history.
Værker af Thomas K. McCraw
The Founders and Finance: How Hamilton, Gallatin, and Other Immigrants Forged a New Economy (2012) 109 eksemplarer
Prophets of Regulation: Charles Francis Adams, Louis D. Brandeis, James M. Landis, Alfred E. Kahn (1984) 87 eksemplarer
Creating Modern Capitalism: How Entrepreneurs, Companies, and Countries Triumphed in Three Industrial Revolutions (1997) 56 eksemplarer
The Intellectual Venture Capitalist: John H. McArthur and the Work of the Harvard Business School, 1980-1995 (1999) 6 eksemplarer
America versus Japan: A Comparative Study of Business-Government Relations Conducted at Harvard (1986) 4 eksemplarer
Mapping the Entrepreneurial Psyche 1 eksemplar
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- Kanonisk navn
- McCraw, Thomas K.
- Juridisk navn
- McCraw, Thomas Kincaid
- Fødselsdato
- 1940-09-11
- Dødsdag
- 2012-11-03
- Køn
- male
- Nationalitet
- USA
- Fødested
- Corinth, Mississippi, USA
- Dødssted
- Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
- Uddannelse
- University of Mississippi (BA | 1962)
University of Wisconsin-Madison (MA ∙ PhD ∙ history) - Erhverv
- historian (business)
professor - Relationer
- Cruikshank, Jeffrey L. (co-editor)
- Organisationer
- Harvard Business School (Isidor Straus Professor of Business History ∙ Emeritus)
United States Navy
University of Texas at Austin - Priser og hædersbevisninger
- Pulitzer Prize (History ∙ 1985)
Thomas Newcomen Award (1986)
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- 10
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- Popularitet
- #46,472
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- 3.9
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- ISBN
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As someone who's read Ron Chernow's biography, there was little in the Hamilton section that was new. But it was well-done and concise.
The Gallatin section was more interesting, because I knew less about Gallatin.
But I felt the book didn't really transcend the sum of its parts. It did a good job highlighting Hamilton's and Galatin's similarities — their immigrant backgrounds, their support for banks and commerce (versus agriculture), their role as administrators and advisers to Virginian presidents. This is interesting stuff, especially McCraw's thesis that a shared immigrant background made the two men more open to commerce.
Where it fell short was in contrasting the two. As a brief section discussing Gallatin's tenure in Congress highlights, the Pennsylvanian had some big differences with Hamilton's financial system. But the chapters on Gallatin's service as Treasury secretary largely wave these away. Instead they focus on their similarities. Gallatin's preference for less regulation and a smaller debt than Hamilton are mentioned almost in passing. A sharper focus on the differences between their worldview would have not only been helpful new information but it would have also brought their similarities into sharper relief.… (mere)