Publications of Edward J. Balleisen    :chronological  alphabetical  combined  bibtex listing:

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Books

  1. Balleisen, EJ. Fraud: An American History from Barnum to Madoff. Princeton University Press, February, 2017. i-479 pp.  [abs]
  2.  Business Regulation. Edited by Balleisen, EJ.Three volume set June, 2015.  [abs]
  3. Balleisen, EJ. Business Regulation (3 volumes). Edward Elgar Publishing, 2015.  [abs]
  4. E.J. Balleisen and D. Moss, eds.. Government and Markets: Toward a New Theory of Regulation. Edited by Balleisen, EJ; Moss, DA. Cambridge University Press, 2009. [available here], [doi]  [abs] [author's comments]
  5. Balleisen, EJ. Scenes from a Corporate Makeover: Columbia/HCA and Heathcare Fraud, 1992-2001. Fuqua School of Business, Duke University, June, 2003. [repository]  [author's comments]
  6. Balleisen, EJ; Balleisen EJ, . Navigating Failure: Bankruptcy and Commercial Society in Antebellum America. University of North Carolina Press, March, 2001. [book_detail]

Journal Articles

  1. Balleisen, EJ. "AMERICA’S ANTI-FRAUD ECOSYSTEM AND THE PROBLEM OF SOCIAL TRUST: PERSPECTIVES FROM LEGAL PRACTITIONERS." Northwestern University Law Review 118.1 (August, 2023): 51-88.  [abs]
  2. Balleisen, EJ; Howes, L; Wibbels, E. "The impact of applied project-based learning on undergraduate student development." Higher Education (January, 2023). [doi]  [abs]
  3. Balleisen, EJ; Chin, R. "The Case for Bringing Experiential Learning into the Humanities." Daedalus 151.3 (June, 2022): 138-152. [doi]  [abs]
  4. Balleisen, E. "Public Purpose in the Evolution of American Higher Education." Labor: Studies in Working-Class History 18.4 (December, 2021): 103-112. [doi]
  5. Balleisen, EJ. "The Prospects for Collaborative Research in Business History." Enterprise and Society 21.4 (December, 2020): 824-852. [doi]  [abs]
  6. Balleisen, EJ. "Sven Beckert and Christine Desan, editors. American Capitalism: New Histories.." The American Historical Review 124.3 (June, 2019): 1112-1114. [doi]
  7. Balleisen, EJ; Jacoby, MB. "Consumer Protection after the Global Financial Crisis." Georgetown Law Journal 107.4 (January, 2019): 813-843.  [abs]
  8. Balleisen, EJ. "The "sucker list" and the evolution of American business fraud." Social Research 85.4 (January, 2018): 699-726.
  9. Balleisen, EJ. "Risk and Ruin: Enron and the Culture of American Capitalism. ByGavin Benke. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018. 272 pp. Figures, tables, notes, index. Cloth, $34.95. ISBN: 978-0-8122-5020-6.." Business History Review 92.4 (2018): 772-774. [doi]
  10. Balleisen, EJ; Bennear, LS; Krawiec, KD; Wiener, JB. "Introduction." Policy Shock: Recalibrating Risk and Regulation after Oil Spills, Nuclear Accidents, and Financial Crises (November, 2017): 1-39. [doi]
  11. Balleisen, EJ; Bennear, LS; Cheang, D; Free, J; Hayes, M; Pechar, E; Preston, AC. "Institutional Mechanisms for Investigating the Regulatory Implications of a Major Crisis: The Commission of Inquiry and the Safety Board." Policy Shock: Recalibrating Risk and Regulation after Oil Spills, Nuclear Accidents, and Financial Crises (November, 2017): 485-539. [doi]
  12. Balleisen, EJ; Bennear, LS; Krawiec, KD; Wiener, JB. "Recalibrating Risk: Crises, Learning, and Regulatory Change." Policy Shock: Recalibrating Risk and Regulation after Oil Spills, Nuclear Accidents, and Financial Crises (November, 2017): 540-561. [doi]
  13. Balleisen, EJ; Bennear, L; Cheang, D; Free, J; Hayes, M; Pechar, E; Preston, AC. "Institutional Mechanisms for Investigating the Regulatory Implications of a Major Crisis: The Commission of Inquiry and the Safety Board." Policy Shock: Regulatory Responses to Nuclear Accidents, Offshore Oil Spill, and Financial Crises (January, 2017): 485-539. [doi]  [abs]
  14. Balleisen, EJ; Bennear, LS; Krawiec, KD; Wiener, JB. "Introduction." Policy Shock: Recalibrating Risk and Regulation after Oil Spills, Nuclear Accidents and Financial Crises (January, 2017): 1-40. [doi]  [abs]
  15. Balleisen, EJ; Bennear, LS; Krawiec, KD; Wiener, JB. "Recalibrating risk: Crises, learning, and regulatory change." Policy Shock: Recalibrating Risk and Regulation after Oil Spills, Nuclear Accidents and Financial Crises (January, 2017): 540-561. [doi]  [abs]
  16. Balleisen, EJ. "American Better Business Bureaus, the Truth-in-Advertising Movement, and the Complexities of Legitimizing Business Self-Regulation over the Long Term." Politics & Governance 5.1 (January, 2017): 42-53. [doi]  [abs]
  17. Balleisen, EJ. "The Dialectics of Modern Regulatory Governance." Business Regulation 1 (2015): xvi-xcviii. [repository]
  18. Balleisen, EJ. "Rights of Way, Red Flags, and Safety Valves: Regulated Business Self-Regulation in America, 1850-1940." Regulierte Selbstregulierung in der westlichen Welt des späten 19. und frühen 20. Jahrhunderts / Regulated Self-Regulation in the Western World in the Late 19th and the Early 20th Century (2014): 75-126. [repository]
  19. Balleisen, EJ; Brake, EK. "Historical Perspective and Better Regulatory Governance: An Institutional Agenda for Reform." Regulation & Governance 8.2 (2014): 222-245. (published online as early view, 12-12; doi:10.1111/rego.12000) [abstract], [doi]  [abs]
  20. Balleisen, EJ. "The ambiguities of business fraud and entrepreneurial reputation in progressive-era america." Business History Review 87.4 (December, 2013): 627-629. [doi]
  21. Balleisen, EJ. "Building a Doctoral Program in Business History." Teaching Business History: Insights and Ideas (2012): 54-67. [00-final-volume-1-report-Oct]
  22. Balleisen, EJ. "The Global Financial Crisis and Responsive Regulation: Some Avenues for Historical Inquiry." University of British Columbia Law Review 44 (2011): 557-587.
  23. Balleisen, EJ. "The prospects for effective coregulation in the United States: A historian's view from the early twenty - first century." Government and Markets: Toward a New Theory of Regulation (January, 2009): 443-481. [government-and-markets-toward-new-theory-regulation], [doi]  [abs]
  24. Balleisen, EJ; Moss, DA. "Introduction." Government and Markets: Toward a New Theory of Regulation (January, 2009): 1-10. [doi]  [abs]
  25. Balleisen, EJ; Moss, DA. "Toward a new theory of regulation: A research agenda for the future." Government and Markets: Toward a New Theory of Regulation (January, 2009): 538-544. [doi]  [abs]
  26. Balleisen, EJ. "Conclusion." Government and Markets: Toward a New Theory of Regulation (2009): 538-544.
  27. Balleisen, EJ; Moss, D. "Introduction." Government and Markets: Toward a New Theory of Regulation 85 (2009): 1-12. [doi]
  28. Balleisen, EJ; Eisner, M. "The Promise and Pitfalls of Co-Regulation: How Governments Can Draw on Private Governance for Public Purpose." New Perspectives on Regulation (2009): 127-149. [new-perspectives-regulation]
  29. Balleisen, EJ. "Private Cops on the Fraud Beat: The Limits of American Business Self-Regulation, 1895-1932." Business History Review 83.1 (2009): 113-160. (This article won the 2009 Henrietta Larson prize for the best article in Business History Review) [displayAbstract], [doi]  [abs]
  30. Balleisen, EJ. "Bankruptcy and Bondage: The Ambiguities of Economic Freedom in the Civil War Era." The Problem of Evil: Slavery, Freedom, and the Ambiguities of American Reform (2007): 276-286.
  31. Balleisen, EJ. "The Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence." Business History Review 79.02 (Spring, 2005): 353-363.
  32. Balleisen, EJ. "Bankruptcy and the Entrepreneurial Ethos in Antebellum American Law." Australian Journal of Legal History 8.1 (December, 2004): 61-82. [repository]
  33. Balleisen, EJ. "Victorian Insolvency: Bankruptcy, Imprisonment for Debt, and Company Winding-Up in Nineteenth-Century England. By V. Markham Lester · New York: Oxford University Press, 1995. 354 pp. Table, charts, appendix, index, notes, and bibliography. $69.00, ISBN 0-19-820518-X." Business History Review 70.03 (Fall, 1996): 426-428.
  34. Balleisen, EJ. "Vulture Capitalism in Antebellum America: The 1841 Federal Bankruptcy Act and the Exploitation of Financial Distress." Business History Review 70.4 (1996): 473-516. [displayAbstract], [doi]  [abs]

Books in Progress

  1. E.J. Balleisen. "Business Regulation, 3 volumes."  Elgar, 2015 A three-volume multi-disciplinary research collection, compiling leading writing on business regulation since 1870, with an extensive introduction

Articles in a Collection

  1. E.J. Balleisen and D. Moss. ""Introduction" and "Conclusion"." Government and Markets: Toward a New Theory of Regulation. Ed. Edward J. Balleisen and David Moss. (Cambridge University Press), 2009. 1-12, 538-44. [government-markets]

Book Reviews

  1. Balleisen, EJ. Review of "The Science of Deception: Psychology and Commerce in America" by Michael Pettit.  Law and History Review 32 (2014): 215-217.
  2. Balleisen, EJ. Review of "Freaks of Fortune: The Emerging World of Capitalism and Risk in America" by Jonathan Levy.  American Historical Review.118 (2013): 1182-1184.
  3. Review of Stephen Mihm. A Nation of Counterfeiters: Capitalists, Con Men, and the Making the United States.  Business History Review 82 (2008): 369-72.
  4. Balleisen EJ, . Review of "A Nation of Counterfeiters: Capitalists, Con Men, and the Making the United States" by Stephen Mihm.  Business History Review 82 (2008): 369-372.
  5. Balleisen EJ, . Review essay on "Andrew Carnegie" by David Nasaw and "Mellon: An American Life" by David Cannadine.  Historically Speaking 9.Jan/Feb (2008): 39-43.
  6. Review Essay on Roy Kreitner. Calculating Promises: The Emergence of Modern American Contract Doctrine.  Law and Politics Book Review 17 (August, 2007): 705-12.
  7. Balleisen EJ, . Review essay on "Calculating Promises: The Emergence of Modern American Contract Doctrine" by Roy Kreitner.  Law and Politics Book Review 17 (August, 2007): 705-712.
  8. Balleisen EJ, . Review of "A Culture of Credit: Embedding Trust and Transparency in American Business" by Rowena Olegario.  Journal of American History 93 (2007): 304-305.
  9. Review of Jocelyn Wills. Boosters, Hustlers, and Speculators: Entrepreneurial Culture and the Rise of Minneapolis and St. Paul, 1849-1883.  American Historical Review 111 (2006): 196-97.
  10. Review of Scott Sandage. Born Losers: A History of Failure in America.  Journal of the Early Republic 26 (2006): 139-42.
  11. Balleisen EJ, . Review of "Born Losers: A History of Failure in America" by Scott Sandage.  Journal of the Early Republic 26 (2006): 139-142.
  12. Balleisen, EJ. Review of "Boosters, hustlers, and speculators: Entrepreneurial culture and the rise of Minneapolis and St. Paul, 1849-1883" by Jocelyn Wills.  American Historical Review 111.1 (2006): 196-197. [Gateway.cgi], [doi]
  13. Balleisen EJ, . Review of "The Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence" by T.H. Breen.  Business History Review 29 (2005): 353-363.
  14. Review of David Skeel. Debt's Dominion: A History of Bankruptcy Law in America.  Law and History Review 22 (2004): 190-91.
  15. Review of Bruce Mann. Republic of Debtors: Bankruptcy in the Age of American Independence.  Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 128.2 (2004): 204-06.
  16. Balleisen EJ, . Review of "Debt’s Dominion: A History of Bankruptcy Law in America" by David Skeel.  Law and History Review 22 (2004): 190-191.
  17. Balleisen, EJ. Review of "Republic of Debtors: Bankruptcy in the Age of American independence" by Bruce Mann.  Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 128 (2004): 204-205. [Gateway.cgi]
  18. Review of Jonathan Glickstein. American Exceptionalism, American Anxiety: Wages, Competition and Degraded Labor in the Antebellum United States.  American Historical Review 108.5 (December, 2003): 1448-49.
  19. Balleisen, EJ. Review of "American Exceptionalism, American Anxiety: Wages, Competition, and Degraded Labor in the Antebellum United States" by Jonathan Glickstein.  American Historical Review 108 (2003): 1448-1449. [Gateway.cgi], [doi]
  20. Balleisen, EJ. The Celebrated Showman Unmasked, Review Essay of The Showman and the Slave: Race, Death and Memory in Barnum’s America by Benjamin Reiss.  Reviews in American History 30 (2002): 393-400. (Review Essay on Benjamin Reiss's The Showman and the Slave: Race, Death and Memory in Barnum’s America)) [Gateway.cgi], [doi]
  21. Balleisen, EJ. Review of "Victorian Insolvency: Bankruptcy, Imprisonment for Debt, and Company Winding-up in Nineteenth-Century England" by V. Markham Lester.  Business History Review 70.Fall (1996): 426-427. [Gateway.cgi], [doi]

Other

  1. Balleisen, EJ. "An Education They Won’t Forget." Duke Magazine 101.Special Issue (2015): 38-39. [an-education-they-wont-forget]
  2. Balleisen, EJ. "Submitting Proposals to the Business History Conference: A Guide to the Process." The Business History Conference (April, 2014).
  3. Balleisen, EJ. "The First 'Voice of Wall Street' A Study in Risk." Echoes Business History Blog, Bloomberg News (June, 2012). [downfall-of-first-voice-of-wall-street-a-study-in-risk]
  4. Balleisen, EJ. "Building a Doctoral Program in Business History." Teaching Business History: Insights and Debates (2012): 54-67.
  5. Balleisen, EJ. "The Career Question in History." Perspectives (Magazine of the American Historical Association) 49.12 (2011): 20-22. [cfm]
  6. Balleisen, EJ. "Regulation." The Oxford International Encyclopedia of Legal HistoryThe Oxford International Encyclopedia of Legal History Oxford University Press. (2009).  [author's comments]
  7. Balleisen, EJ. "Bankrupt: Maxed out in America." American RadioWorks (April, 2006).
  8. Balleisen, EJ. "Reshaping Doctoral Education for the Next Generation: An Update on History’s Participation in the Carnegie Initiative on the Doctorate." Perspectives 44.3 American Historical Association. (March, 2006): 49-51.
  9. E.J. Balleisen and Mitchell Fraas. "Legal History on the Web." (2006). [available here]  [abs]
  10. Balleisen, EJ. "Bankruptcy Bill Is Where It Belongs: Shelved." American Banker (December, 2001): 13.

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