Journal ArticleHigher Education · April 1, 2024
A growing body of research suggests that “high-impact practices” such as project-based and experiential learning make important contributions to undergraduate student development and outcomes. However, most attempts to evaluate such programs are based on q ...
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Journal ArticleNorthwestern University Law Review · August 1, 2023
This contribution revives an autobiographical genre present in law reviews roughly a half-century ago, in which seasoned legal practitioners offered perspective on vital issues. Here, a senior deputy attorney general, a former federal prosecutor, a corpora ...
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Journal ArticleDaedalus · June 1, 2022
Drawing on innovative programs at the University of Michigan and Duke University, this essay explores an important trend in humanistic education: the provision of opportunities for experiential learning, whether for undergraduates or graduate students. Ave ...
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Journal ArticleEnterprise and Society · December 1, 2020
After reflecting on the thematic evolution of business history as a field over the past 50 years, this revised presidential address invites readers to consider the potential payoffs of expanding the contexts in which business historians work together on re ...
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Journal ArticleGeorgetown Law Journal · January 1, 2019
A full decade has passed since the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) triggered a flood of foreclosures, crushed real estate and stock market valuations, and destroyed a number of leading financial service corporations. Freezing credit flows throughout North Am ...
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Book · February 1, 2017
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Economic duplicity has bedeviled American markets from the founding of the Republic. This wide-ranging history emphasizes the enduring connections between capitalist innovation and business fraud, as well as the vexed efforts by private organizations and ...
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Chapter · January 1, 2017
It is often observed that crisis events spur new regulation. An extensive literature focuses on the role of disasters, tragedies, scandals, shocks, and other untoward events in stimulating regulatory responses (Baumgartner and Jones 1993; Percival 1998; Ku ...
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Chapter · January 1, 2017
Crises punctuate our world. Their causes and consequences are woven through complex, interconnected social and technological systems. Consider these three recent events, each of which dramatically upended expectations about risk: • In the fall of 2008, the ...
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Book · January 1, 2017
In America, fraud has always been a key feature of business, and the national worship of entrepreneurial freedom complicates the task of distinguishing salesmanship from deceit. In this sweeping narrative, Edward Balleisen traces the history of fraud in Am ...
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Book · June 2015
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This comprehensive collection conveys leading scholarly ideas on modern regulatory governance since 1871. The first two volumes lay out the rationales for and critiques of technocratic governance in industrialized societies. They trace the evolution of reg ...
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Journal ArticleRegulation & Governance · 2014
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Compared to economics, sociology, political science, and law, the discipline of history has had a limited role in the wide-ranging efforts to reconsider strategies of regulatory governance, especially inside regulatory institutions. This article explores h ...
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Chapter · January 1, 2009
After more than a generation of deregulation and a presidential declaration that the “era of big government is over, ” the political pendulum has apparently begun to swing back toward regulation. Calls for effective government action, long subdued, have gr ...
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Chapter · January 1, 2009
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As just about any observer of the American political scene over the past thirty years can attest, traditional modes of economic regulation by administrative agencies fell sharply out of favor in the United States in the quarter century after 1975. In areas ...
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Chapter · January 1, 2009
As the global economy confronts its worst downturn since the Great Depression, and America begins to undertake some of the most ambitious policy initiatives since the New Deal, the country is urgently in need of fresh ideas about economic regulation. The f ...
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Journal ArticleBusiness History Review · 2009
AbstractFrom the late 1890s through the 1920s, a new set of nonprofit, business-funded organizations spearheaded an American campaign against commercial duplicity. These new organizations shaped the legal terrain of fraud, ...
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Book · 2009
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After two generations of emphasis on governmental inefficiency and the need for deregulation, we now see growing interest in the possibility of constructive governance, alongside public calls for new, smarter regulation. Yet there is a real danger that reg ...
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Internet Publication · 2008
Annotated gateway to online legal history resources. Created by Edward Balleisen and Mitch Fraas in 2008. Updated with the help of Ashton Merck in 2014. ...
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Journal ArticleBusiness History Review · December 1996
There is, on an average, annually wrecked upon the Florida coast, about fifty vessels…. The great destruction of property consequent upon this state of things, and the hope of gain, have induced a settlement at Key West, where, to adjudicate upon the wreck ...
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Journal ArticleBusiness History Review · 1996
There is, on an average, annually wrecked upon the Florida coast, about fifty vessels…. The great destruction of property consequent upon this state of things, and the hope of gain, have induced a settlement at Key West, where, to adjudicate upon t ...
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Journal ArticlePolitics & Governance
This essay considers the question of how strategies of legitimatizing private regulatory governance evolve over the long term. It focuses on the century-long history of the American Better Business Bureau (BBB) network, a linked set of business-funded non- ...
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Includes: companion essays on methods, historiography, avenues for further research; additional resources for scholars and teachers; responses to the book by scholars and in the media. ...
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