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: German Corporate Entrepreneurs in Nineteenth Century America (1800-1899)


Authors: RE Wright

Publication: Immigrant Entrepreneurship: German-American Business Biographies, 1720-Present, 2014

Title: Guide to US Economic Policy


Authors: RE Wright, TW Zeiler

Publication: CQ Press, 2014

Title: Introduction


Authors: RE Wright

Publication: The National Corporate System: Conceptual Foundations of Performance …, 2014

Title: Mastering Iron: The Struggle to Modernize an American Industry, 1800-1868


Authors: RE Wright

Publication: The Journal of American History 101 (3), 931-932, 2014

Title: NEW BEDFORD, MASSACHUSETTS and the Importance of Local Sources of Capital


Authors: RE Wright

Publication: Financial History, 28, 2014