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Edward J. Balleisen CV

Professor Emeritus of History
History
Box 90003, Durham, NC 27708-0719
216 Allen Bldg, Durham, NC 27708
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Featured Works


Fraud: An American History from Barnum to Madoff

Book · February 1, 2017 Featured Publication 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 ... Open Access Cite

Business Regulation

Book · June 2015 Featured Publication 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 ... Cite

Business Regulation (3 volumes)

Book · 2015 Featured Publication Research Collection ... Cite

The Dialectics of Modern Regulatory Governance

Book section · 2015 Featured Publication Open Access Cite

Historical Perspective and Better Regulatory Governance: An Institutional Agenda for Reform

Journal article Regulation & Governance · 2014 Featured Publication 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 ... Full text Cite

The prospects for effective coregulation in the United States: A historian's view from the early twenty - first century

Book section · January 1, 2009 Featured Publication 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 ... Full text Cite

Government and Markets: Toward a New Theory of Regulation

Book · 2009 Featured Publication 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 ... Cite