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He received his B.A. from Queens College , his M.A. from Harvard University and his Ph.D. from Columbia University . He taught in the Graduate School of Business at Columbia until 1974. Since then, when he joined the Hoover Institution, he has taught in Stanford 's Graduate School of Business.

He lectures frequently to business and academic audiences on government regulation of industry and has testified before Congressional committees.

His articles, commentaries and reviews have appeared in many scholarly and popular publications, including The New York Times, Barron's, Business History Review, Labor History, The Hastings Law Journal and the Journal of Law and Economics.

Dr. Hessen has written three books and edited two others. ''Steel Titan: The Life of Charles M. Schwab'' (Oxford University Press, ). He is general editor of the ''Hoover Archival Documentaries'', a multi-volume series which publishes historically significant materials from the Archives of the Hoover Institution.