Publications of Edward J. Balleisen

Books

  1. Balleisen, EJ, Fraud: An American History from Barnum to Madoff (February, 2017), pp. i-479, Princeton University Press, ISBN 978-0-691-16455-7
  2. Business Regulation, edited by Balleisen, EJ, vol. Three volume set (June, 2015), ISBN 9781781951590
  3. Balleisen, EJ, Business Regulation (3 volumes) (2015), Edward Elgar Publishing
  4. E.J. Balleisen and D. Moss, eds., Government and Markets: Toward a New Theory of Regulation, edited by Balleisen, EJ; Moss, DA (2009), Cambridge University Press, ISBN 9780511657504
  5. Balleisen, EJ, Scenes from a Corporate Makeover: Columbia/HCA and Heathcare Fraud, 1992-2001 (June, 2003), Fuqua School of Business, Duke University
  6. Balleisen, EJ; Balleisen EJ, , Navigating Failure: Bankruptcy and Commercial Society in Antebellum America (March, 2001), University of North Carolina Press

Books in Progress

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

Journal Articles

  1. Balleisen, EJ, AMERICA’S ANTI-FRAUD ECOSYSTEM AND THE PROBLEM OF SOCIAL TRUST: PERSPECTIVES FROM LEGAL PRACTITIONERS, Northwestern University Law Review, vol. 118 no. 1 (August, 2023), pp. 51-88
  2. Balleisen, EJ; Howes, L; Wibbels, E, The impact of applied project-based learning on undergraduate student development, Higher Education (January, 2023)
  3. Balleisen, EJ; Chin, R, The Case for Bringing Experiential Learning into the Humanities, Daedalus, vol. 151 no. 3 (June, 2022), pp. 138-152
  4. Balleisen, E, Public Purpose in the Evolution of American Higher Education, Labor: Studies in Working-Class History, vol. 18 no. 4 (December, 2021), pp. 103-112
  5. Balleisen, EJ, The Prospects for Collaborative Research in Business History, Enterprise and Society, vol. 21 no. 4 (December, 2020), pp. 824-852
  6. Balleisen, EJ, Sven Beckert and Christine Desan, editors. American Capitalism: New Histories., The American Historical Review, vol. 124 no. 3 (June, 2019), pp. 1112-1114, Oxford University Press (OUP)
  7. Balleisen, EJ; Jacoby, MB, Consumer Protection after the Global Financial Crisis, Georgetown Law Journal, vol. 107 no. 4 (January, 2019), pp. 813-843, GEORGETOWN LAW JOURNAL ASSOC
  8. Balleisen, EJ, The "sucker list" and the evolution of American business fraud, Social Research, vol. 85 no. 4 (January, 2018), pp. 699-726, NEW SCHOOL UNIV
  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, vol. 92 no. 4 (2018), pp. 772-774, Cambridge University Press (CUP)
  10. Balleisen, EJ; Bennear, LS; Krawiec, KD; Wiener, JB, Introduction, in Policy Shock: Recalibrating Risk and Regulation after Oil Spills, Nuclear Accidents, and Financial Crises, edited by Balleisen, EJ; Bennear, LS; Krawiec, KD; Wiener, JB (November, 2017), pp. 1-39, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 978-1107140219
  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, in Policy Shock: Recalibrating Risk and Regulation after Oil Spills, Nuclear Accidents, and Financial Crises, edited by Balleisen, EJ; Bennear, LS; Krawiec, KD; Wiener, JB (November, 2017), pp. 485-539, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 978-1107140219
  12. Balleisen, EJ; Bennear, LS; Krawiec, KD; Wiener, JB, Recalibrating Risk: Crises, Learning, and Regulatory Change, in Policy Shock: Recalibrating Risk and Regulation after Oil Spills, Nuclear Accidents, and Financial Crises, edited by Balleisen, EJ; Bennear, LS; Krawiec, KD; Wiener, JB (November, 2017), pp. 540-561, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 978-1107140219
  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, in Policy Shock: Regulatory Responses to Nuclear Accidents, Offshore Oil Spill, and Financial Crises (January, 2017), pp. 485-539, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 9781107140219
  14. Balleisen, EJ; Bennear, LS; Krawiec, KD; Wiener, JB, Introduction, in Policy Shock: Recalibrating Risk and Regulation after Oil Spills, Nuclear Accidents and Financial Crises (January, 2017), pp. 1-40, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 9781107140219
  15. Balleisen, EJ; Bennear, LS; Krawiec, KD; Wiener, JB, Recalibrating risk: Crises, learning, and regulatory change, in Policy Shock: Recalibrating Risk and Regulation after Oil Spills, Nuclear Accidents and Financial Crises (January, 2017), pp. 540-561, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 9781107140219
  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, vol. 5 no. 1 (January, 2017), pp. 42-53, Cogitato
  17. Balleisen, EJ, The Dialectics of Modern Regulatory Governance, in Business Regulation, vol. 1 (2015), pp. xvi-xcviii, Elgar Publishing
  18. Balleisen, EJ, Rights of Way, Red Flags, and Safety Valves: Regulated Business Self-Regulation in America, 1850-1940, in 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, edited by Collin, P; Bender, G; Ruppert, S; Seckelmann, M; Stolleis, M (2014), pp. 75-126, Klostermann
  19. Balleisen, EJ; Brake, EK, Historical Perspective and Better Regulatory Governance: An Institutional Agenda for Reform, Regulation & Governance, vol. 8 no. 2 (2014), pp. 222-245 (published online as early view, 12-12; doi:10.1111/rego.12000.)
  20. Balleisen, EJ, The ambiguities of business fraud and entrepreneurial reputation in progressive-era america, Business History Review, vol. 87 no. 4 (December, 2013), pp. 627-629, Cambridge University Press (CUP), ISSN 0007-6805
  21. Balleisen, EJ, Building a Doctoral Program in Business History, in Teaching Business History: Insights and Ideas (2012), pp. 54-67
  22. Balleisen, EJ, The Global Financial Crisis and Responsive Regulation: Some Avenues for Historical Inquiry, University of British Columbia Law Review, vol. 44 (2011), pp. 557-587
  23. Balleisen, EJ, The prospects for effective coregulation in the United States: A historian's view from the early twenty - first century, in Government and Markets: Toward a New Theory of Regulation, edited by Edward J. Balleisen and David Moss (January, 2009), pp. 443-481, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 9780521118484
  24. Balleisen, EJ; Moss, DA, Introduction, in Government and Markets: Toward a New Theory of Regulation (January, 2009), pp. 1-10, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 9780521118484
  25. Balleisen, EJ; Moss, DA, Toward a new theory of regulation: A research agenda for the future, in Government and Markets: Toward a New Theory of Regulation (January, 2009), pp. 538-544, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 9780521118484
  26. Balleisen, EJ, Conclusion, in Government and Markets: Toward a New Theory of Regulation, edited by Balleisen, E; Moss, D (2009), pp. 538-544, Cambridge University Press
  27. Balleisen, EJ; Moss, D, Introduction, in Government and Markets: Toward a New Theory of Regulation, edited by Balleisen, E; Moss, D, vol. 85 (2009), pp. 1-12, Cambridge University Press
  28. Balleisen, EJ; Eisner, M, The Promise and Pitfalls of Co-Regulation: How Governments Can Draw on Private Governance for Public Purpose, in New Perspectives on Regulation, edited by Moss, D; Cisternino, J (2009), pp. 127-149, The Tobin Project
  29. Balleisen, EJ, Private Cops on the Fraud Beat: The Limits of American Business Self-Regulation, 1895-1932, Business History Review, vol. 83 no. 1 (2009), pp. 113-160, Cambridge University Press (CUP), ISSN 0007-6805 (This article won the 2009 Henrietta Larson prize for the best article in Business History Review.)
  30. Balleisen, EJ, Bankruptcy and Bondage: The Ambiguities of Economic Freedom in the Civil War Era, in The Problem of Evil: Slavery, Freedom, and the Ambiguities of American Reform, edited by Mintz, S; Forbes, R; Stauffer, J (2007), pp. 276-286, University of Massachussetts Press
  31. Balleisen, EJ, The Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence, Business History Review, vol. 79 no. 02 (Spring, 2005), pp. 353-363
  32. Balleisen, EJ, Bankruptcy and the Entrepreneurial Ethos in Antebellum American Law, Australian Journal of Legal History, vol. 8 no. 1 (December, 2004), pp. 61-82
  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, vol. 70 no. 03 (Fall, 1996), pp. 426-428
  34. Balleisen, EJ, Vulture Capitalism in Antebellum America: The 1841 Federal Bankruptcy Act and the Exploitation of Financial Distress, Business History Review, vol. 70 no. 4 (1996), pp. 473-516, Cambridge University Press (CUP), ISSN 0007-6805

Articles in a Collection

  1. E.J. Balleisen and D. Moss, "Introduction" and "Conclusion", in Government and Markets: Toward a New Theory of Regulation, edited by Edward J. Balleisen and David Moss (2009), pp. 1-12, 538-44, Cambridge University Press

Book Reviews

  1. Balleisen, EJ, Review of "The Science of Deception: Psychology and Commerce in America" by Michael Pettit, Law and History Review, vol. 32 (2014), pp. 215-217, ISSN 1939-9022
  2. Balleisen, EJ, Review of "Freaks of Fortune: The Emerging World of Capitalism and Risk in America" by Jonathan Levy, American Historical Review no. 118 (2013), pp. 1182-1184, Oxford University Press (OUP), ISSN 1937-5239
  3. Review of Stephen Mihm, A Nation of Counterfeiters: Capitalists, Con Men, and the Making the United States, Business History Review, vol. 82 (2008), pp. 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, vol. 82 (2008), pp. 369-372
  5. Balleisen EJ, , Review essay on "Andrew Carnegie" by David Nasaw and "Mellon: An American Life" by David Cannadine, Historically Speaking, vol. 9 no. Jan/Feb (2008), pp. 39-43
  6. Review Essay on Roy Kreitner, Calculating Promises: The Emergence of Modern American Contract Doctrine, Law and Politics Book Review, vol. 17 (August, 2007), pp. 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, vol. 17 (August, 2007), pp. 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, vol. 93 (2007), pp. 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, vol. 111 (2006), pp. 196-97
  10. Review of Scott Sandage, Born Losers: A History of Failure in America, Journal of the Early Republic, vol. 26 (2006), pp. 139-42
  11. Balleisen EJ, , Review of "Born Losers: A History of Failure in America" by Scott Sandage, Journal of the Early Republic, vol. 26 (2006), pp. 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, vol. 111 no. 1 (2006), pp. 196-197, Oxford University Press (OUP), ISSN 1937-5239
  13. Balleisen EJ, , Review of "The Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence" by T.H. Breen, Business History Review, vol. 29 (2005), pp. 353-363
  14. Review of David Skeel, Debt's Dominion: A History of Bankruptcy Law in America, Law and History Review, vol. 22 (2004), pp. 190-91
  15. Review of Bruce Mann, Republic of Debtors: Bankruptcy in the Age of American Independence, Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, vol. 128 no. 2 (2004), pp. 204-06
  16. Balleisen EJ, , Review of "Debt’s Dominion: A History of Bankruptcy Law in America" by David Skeel, Law and History Review, vol. 22 (2004), pp. 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, vol. 128 (2004), pp. 204-205, ISSN 0031-4587
  18. Review of Jonathan Glickstein, American Exceptionalism, American Anxiety: Wages, Competition and Degraded Labor in the Antebellum United States, American Historical Review, vol. 108 no. 5 (December, 2003), pp. 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, vol. 108 (2003), pp. 1448-1449, Oxford University Press (OUP), ISSN 1937-5239
  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, vol. 30 (2002), pp. 393-400, Johns Hopkins University Press, ISSN 1080-6628 (Review Essay on Benjamin Reiss's The Showman and the Slave: Race, Death and Memory in Barnum’s America).)
  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, vol. 70 no. Fall (1996), pp. 426-427, Cambridge University Press (CUP), ISSN 0007-6805

Other

  1. Balleisen, EJ, An Education They Won’t Forget, Duke Magazine, vol. 101 no. Special Issue (2015), pp. 38-39
  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)
  4. Balleisen, EJ, Building a Doctoral Program in Business History, edited by Friedman, W; Jones, G, Teaching Business History: Insights and Debates (2012), pp. 54-67
  5. Balleisen, EJ, The Career Question in History, Perspectives (Magazine of the American Historical Association), vol. 49 no. 12 (2011), pp. 20-22
  6. Balleisen, EJ, Regulation, in The Oxford International Encyclopedia of Legal History, The Oxford International Encyclopedia of Legal History (2009), Oxford University Press
  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, vol. 44 no. 3 (March, 2006), pp. 49-51, American Historical Association
  9. E.J. Balleisen and Mitchell Fraas, Legal History on the Web (2006)
  10. Balleisen, EJ, Bankruptcy Bill Is Where It Belongs: Shelved, American Banker (December, 2001), pp. 13