New Rules or Triumphant Capitalism

New Rules: Regulation, Markets, and the Quality of American Health Care

Author: Troyen A Brennan

New Rules tells the tale of the evolution of health care regulation over the last quarter century and examines the relationship between regulation and quality improvement. The authors outline ways to convert regulation from a meaningless waste of resources into a system that can truly help practitioners provide better care. And they offer bold recommAndations for change, with fourteen of their own prescriptions" for specific arenas of regulation.

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Triumphant Capitalism: Henry Clay Frick and the Industrial Transformation of America

Author: Kenneth Warren

A detailed, carefully wrought business biography of Henry Clay Frick, one of the leading entrepreneurs in American heavy industry during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Kenneth Warren has provided not only insight into the life of Henry Clay Frick, but a major contribution to our understanding of the history of the basic industries, the shaping of society, locality, and region - and thereby of laying the foundations for the value systems and landscapes of present-day America.

Library Journal

Henry Clay Frick parlayed his success in the coke industry into a leading role for himself in America's expanding steel industry at the close of the 19th century. He was a close associate of Andrew Carnegie and was often depicted as the "bad cop" to Carnegie's "good cop" during the era's labor struggles, notably the Homestead Strike of 1892. Warren, an Oxford don, calls this work an "industrial biography," a kind of life-and-times book with a business focus. It is almost impossible to write a readable book about the financial involutions of the steel industry, and Warren does not overcome the difficulties. Though his arid work will attract few general readers, its research value makes it welcome in academic libraries with interests in industrial and Pennsylvania history.Fritz Buckallew, Univ. of Central Oklahoma Lib., Edmond

Booknews

A career biography of the anti-labor industrialist, drawing on personal and business papers from the previously restricted Frick archives in Pittsburgh. Analyzes key decisions that formed labor and industrial policy in the iron and steel industry, and provides insights into Frick's relationships with contemporaries including Andrew Carnegie, J.P. Morgan, and Elbert Gary. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)