2007

with Thomas Welskopp (Univ. of Bielefeld), “Peculiarities and Myths: Comparing U.S. and German Capitalism”, German Historical Institute Bulletin no. 41 (Fall 2007): 33‐64.

2006

“Social Conceptions of the Corporation: Insights from the History of Shareholder Voting Rights.” Washington and Lee Law Review, vol. 63, no. 4 (2006): 1347‐1388.

2006

“Why Did Some American Businesses Get So Big?” In Major Problems in American Business History. Edited by Regina Blaszczyk and Philip Scranton. New York: Houghton‐Mifflin, 2006. pp. 257‐263. (Excerpt reprinted from an article published in 1994.)

2004

"From Citizens to Plutocrats:  19th-Century Shareholder Voting Rights and Theories of the Corporation."  In Constructing Corporate America:  History, Politics, Culture, edited by Kenneth Lipartito and David B. Sicilia.  Oxford:  Oxford University Press, 2004, 66-93.

2002

"Bursting Through State Limits:  Lessons from American Railroad History."  In The State, Regulation and the Economy, edited by Lars Magnusson and Jan Ottosson.  Edward Elgar, 2002.

2001

Articles on "technology" and "railroads."  In The Oxford Companion to United States History, ed.-in-chief, Paul S. Boyer. Oxford/New York:  Oxford University Press, 2001.

1999

"Corporate Democracy: Stockholder Voting Rights in Nineteenth- Century American and Prussian Railroad Corporations."  In Institutions in the Transport and Communication Industries:  State and Private Actors in the Making of Institutional Patterns, 1850-1990, edited by Lena Andersson-Skog and Olle Krantz.  Canton, Mass.:  Science History Publications, 1999, pp. 33-60.

1999

"When Business Outgrows the Law: Lessons from the American Experience," Northwestern Journal of International Affairs 1 (Spring 1999): 19-27.

1998

"Corporate Governance in Late 19th-Century Europe and the U.S.: The Case of Shareholder Voting Rights."  In Comparative Corporate Governance:  The State of the Art and Emerging Research, edited by Klaus J. Hopt, Hideki Kanda, Mark J. Roe, Eddy Wymeersch, and Stefan Prigge.  Oxford:  Clarendon Press, 1998.

1996

"Comment l’État structure les intérêts économiques: la création d’associations nationales des chemins de fer aux États-Unis et en Prusse de 1830 à 1885," Le Mouvement Social, no. 176 (July-September 1996), pp. 69-101.

1994

"How Did American Business Get So Big?" Audacity, The Magazine of Busi­ness Experience, Spring 1994, pp. 41-49.  Excerpted in The Business Journal (Milwaukee), June 18, 1994, p. 5.

1993

"Railroads and the Transformation of Political Structures:  The United States and Prussia in the Early 19th Century."  Schriftenreihe des Zentralinstituts für Fränkische Landeskunde und Allgemeine Regionalforschung, Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, 1993.

1992

"Political Structure, State Policy, and Industrial Change: Early Railroad Policy in the United States and Prussia."  In Structuring Politics: Historical Institutionalism in Comparative Analysis, pp. 114-54.  Edited by Sven Steinmo, Kathleen Thelen, and Frank Longstreth.  Cambridge:  Cambridge University Press, 1992.

1991

"Mirror Images: Political Structure and Early Railroad Policy in the United States and Prussia."  Studies in American Political Development  5 (Spring 1991): 1-35.

1990

"Organizing Railroad Interests: The Creation of National Railroad Associations in the United States and Prussia."  Business and Economic History, 2d ser., 19 (1990): 133-42.

1990

"Der ‘Vater der deutschen Eisenbahnen’ in den Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika:  Friedrich List und Früheisenbahnbauweisen."  Wissenschaftliche Zeitschrift derHochschule für Verkehrswesen (Dresden), Sonderheft 54:  Friedrich List - Leben und Werk (1990): 51-60.

1984

"(Beginnings of a Few) Theses on the State," Berlin, August 22, 1984.