Thomas K. McCraw: Harvard Business Prof, Pulitzer Prize-Winning Historian
Long-time town resident won Pulitzer for a narrative explaining regulations in business.
Thomas K. McCraw, a long-time Belmont resident who won the 1985 Pulitzer Prize in History for his narrative of how government regulation of industry affected the American economy, died this past Saturday, Nov. 3, in Cambridge. The Rutledge Road resident, who taught for 31 years at the Harvard Business School until 2007, died after a long illness, according to his family who spoke to the New York Times. McCraw was 72. McCraw's "Prophets of Regulation," for which he won the Pulitzer, "remains a seminal study of the development of American economic regulation and a sterling example of biography-as-history," according to a tribute from the Harvard University Press, which last month published his latest book, "The Founders and Finance," that …
