Robert E. Wright

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Robert E. Wright is a Senior Research Fellow at the American Institute for Economic Research. He 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.

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Research Publications by Robert E. Wright

  • John Jacobs

    Authors: LM Wright, Robert E., Wolfe

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

  • John Morton

    Authors: LM Wright, Robert E., Wolfe

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

  • John Wilkinson

    Authors: LM Wright, Robert E., Wolfe

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

  • Joseph Ellicott

    Authors: LM Wright, Robert E., Wolfe

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

  • Joseph King

    Authors: LM Wright, Robert E., Wolfe

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

  • Michael Hillegas

    Authors: LM Wright, Robert E., Wolfe

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

  • Observations on the Composition of Colonial Pennsylvania’s Money Supply

    Authors: RW Michener, RE Wright

    Publication: Available at SSRN 683489, 2005

  • Price Quotations in Early United States Securities Markets, 1790-1860

    Authors: RE Sylla, JW Wilson, RE Wright

    Publication: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research, 2005