Robert E. Wright is the (co)author or (co)editor of over two dozen major books, book series, and edited collections, including AIER’s The Best of Thomas Paine (2021) and Financial Exclusion (2019). He has also (co)authored numerous articles for important journals, including the American Economic ReviewBusiness History ReviewIndependent ReviewJournal of Private EnterpriseReview of Finance, and Southern Economic Review. Robert has taught business, economics, and policy courses at Augustana University, NYU’s Stern School of Business, Temple University, the University of Virginia, and elsewhere since taking his Ph.D. in History from SUNY Buffalo in 1997. Robert E. Wright was formerly a Senior Research Faculty at the American Institute for Economic Research.

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Research Publications by Robert E. Wright

Title: State “currencies” and the transition to the US dollar: Clarifying some confusions


Authors: RW Michener, RE Wright

Publication: American Economic Review 95 (3), 682-703, 2005

Title: The First Wall Street


Authors: RE Wright

Publication: University of Chicago Press Economics Books, 2005

Title: The US National Debt, 1787-1900


Authors: RE Wright

Publication: Pickering & Chatto, 2005

Title: Thomas Willing


Authors: LM Wright, Robert E., Wolfe

Publication: Lawmaking and Legislators in Pennsylvania: A Biographical Dictionary, 2005

Title: Cashing a Cheque in the Third Millennium AD


Authors: RE Wright

Publication: FREEMAN-NEW SERIES-FOUNDATION FOR ECONOMIC EDUCATION- 54, 8-9, 2004