Publications of Edward J Balleisen

Books

  1. E.J. Balleisen and D. Moss, eds., Government and Markets: Toward a New Theory of Regulation (New York: Cambridge UP, 2010)
  2. Scenes from a Corporate Makeover: Columbia/HCA and Heathcare Fraud, 1992-2001 (June, 2003), Fuqua School of Management, Duke University
  3. Navigating Failure: Bankruptcy and Commercial Society in Antebellum America (March, 2001), University of North Carolina Press

Papers Published

  1. E.J. Balleisen, The Global Financial Crisis and Responsive Regulation: Some Avenues for Historical Inquiry, University of British Columbia Law Review, vol. 44 (2012), pp. 557-87
  2. E.J. Balleisen, "The Prospects for Effective Co-Regulation in the United States: A Historian's View from the Early Twenty-First Century", in Government and Markets: Toward a New Theory of Regulation, ed. by E. Balleisen and D. Moss (2010), pp. 443-81, Cambridge UP
  3. E.J. Balleisen, "Private Cops on the Fraud Beat: The Limits of American Business Self-Regulation, 1895-1932", Business History Review, vol. 83 no. Spring (2009), pp. 113-60 (This article won the Henrietta Larson Award for the year's business submission to the BUSINESS HISTORY REVIEW.)
  4. E.J. Balleisen and M. Eisner, "The Promise and Pitfalls of Co-Regulation: How Governments Can Draw on Private Governance for Public Purpose", in New Pespectives on Regulation, edited by John Cisternino (2009), The Tobin Project
  5. Review Essay of T. H. Breen, The Marketplace of Revolution, Business History Review, vol. 79 no. 2 (Spring, 2005), pp. 353-63
  6. Bankruptcy and the Entrepreneurial Ethos in Antebellum American Law, Australian Journal of Legal History, vol. 8 no. 1 (Winter, 2004), pp. 61-82
  7. The Celebrated Showman Unmasked, Reviews in American History, vol. 30 (2002), pp. 393-400 (Review Essay on Benjamin Reiss's The Showman and the Slave: Race, Death, and Memory in Barnum's America.)
  8. Vulture Capitalism in Antebellum America: The 1841 Federal Bankruptcy Act and the Exploitation of Financial Distress, Business History Review, vol. 70 (Winter, 1996), pp. 473-516

Book Reviews

  1. Review Essay of David Nasaw/David Cannadine, Andrew Carnegie/Mellon: an American Life, Historically Speaking, vol. 9 (2008), pp. 39-43
  2. 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
  3. 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
  4. Review of Rowena Olegario,, A Culture of Credit: Embedding Trust and Transparency in American Business, Journal of American History, vol. 93 (2007), pp. 304-305
  5. 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
  6. Review of Scott Sandage, Born Losers: A History of Failure in America, Journal of the Early Republic, vol. 26 (2006), pp. 139-42
  7. Review of David Skeel, Debt's Dominion: A History of Bankruptcy Law in America, Law and History Review, vol. 22 (2004), pp. 190-91
  8. 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
  9. 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
  10. Review of V. Markham Lester, Victorian Insolvency: Bankruptcy, Imprisonment for Debt, and Company Winding-Up in Nineteenth-Century England, Business History Review, vol. 70 (Fall, 1996), pp. 426-27

Other

  1. E.J. Balleisen, Regulation, in The Oxford International Encyclopedia of Legal History (2009), Oxford UP
  2. E.J. Balleisen, 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
  3. E.J. Balleisen and Mitchell Fraas, Legal History on the Web (2006)