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: Insuring America: Market, Intermediated, and Government Risk Management Since 1790


Authors: RE Wright

Publication: Encuentro Internacional Sobra la Historia del Seguro, 239-98, 2010

Title: Rise of the corporation nation


Authors: RE Wright

Publication: Founding Choices: American Economic Policy in the 1790s, 217-258, 2010

Title: Teaching history in business schools: An insider’s view


Authors: RE Wright

Publication: Academy of Management Learning & Education 9 (4), 697-700, 2010

Title: The deadliest of games: the institution of dueling


Authors: CG Kingston, RE Wright

Publication: Southern Economic Journal 76 (4), 1094-1106, 2010

Title: Thinking beyond the public company


Authors: RE Wright

Publication: McKinsey Quarterly, 2010

Title: When money was in fashion: Henry Goldman, Goldman Sachs, and the founding of Wall Street


Authors: RE Wright

Publication: Routledge 52 (7), 1185-1187, 2010