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Edward J. Balleisen

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Professor Emeritus of History
History
eballeis@duke.edu
Box 90003, Durham, NC 27708-0719
216 Allen Bldg, Durham, NC 27708
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Scholarly Works - Journal articles

The impact of applied project-based learning on undergraduate student development

Journal article Higher 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 ... Full text Cite

AMERICA’S ANTI-FRAUD ECOSYSTEM AND THE PROBLEM OF SOCIAL TRUST: PERSPECTIVES FROM LEGAL PRACTITIONERS

Journal article Northwestern 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 ... Cite

The Case for Bringing Experiential Learning into the Humanities

Journal article Daedalus · 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 ... Full text Cite

Public Purpose in the Evolution of American Higher Education

Journal article Labor Studies in Working Class History · December 1, 2021 Full text Cite

The Prospects for Collaborative Research in Business History

Journal article Enterprise 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 ... Full text Cite

Sven Beckert and Christine Desan, editors. American Capitalism: New Histories.

Journal article The American Historical Review · June 1, 2019 Full text Cite

Consumer Protection after the Global Financial Crisis

Journal article Georgetown 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 ... Cite

The "sucker list" and the evolution of American business fraud

Journal article Social Research · January 1, 2018 Full text 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 Global Financial Crisis and Responsive Regulation: Some Avenues for Historical Inquiry

Journal article University of British Columbia Law Review · 2011 Cite

Private Cops on the Fraud Beat: The Limits of American Business Self-Regulation, 1895-1932

Journal article Business 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, ... Full text Cite

Bankruptcy and the Entrepreneurial Ethos in Antebellum American Law

Journal article Australian Journal of Legal History · December 2004 Open Access Cite

Vulture Capitalism in Antebellum America: The 1841 Federal Bankruptcy Act and the Exploitation of Financial Distress

Journal article Business 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 ... Cite

Vulture Capitalism in Antebellum America: The 1841 Federal Bankruptcy Act and the Exploitation of Financial Distress

Journal article Business 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 ... Full text Cite

American Better Business Bureaus, the Truth-in-Advertising Movement, and the Complexities of Legitimizing Business Self-Regulation over the Long Term

Journal article Politics & 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- ... Cite