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: Gilded Age Redux? No, The Age of Pyrite


Authors: RE Wright

Publication: The Idea Exchange, n/a, 2013

Title: Government bailouts


Authors: RE Wright

Publication: Routledge Handbook of Major Events in Economic History, 432-444, 2013

Title: The Competition Game


Authors: RE Wright

Publication: Journal of Private Enterprise 29 (1), 141, 2013

Title: Wall Street on the Prairie


Authors: RE Wright

Publication: Financial History, 24, 2013

Title: Alexander Hamilton on the Costs and Benefits of the National Debt


Authors: RE Wright

Publication: The Idea Exchange, n/a, 2012