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: Political Institutions and Financial Development


Authors: RE Wright

Publication: Journal of Economic Literature 46 (4), 991-992, 2008

Title: Broken Buildings, Busted Budgets: How to Fix America’s Trillion-Dollar Construction Industry


Authors: T Wright, Robert E., LePatner, Barry, Jacobson

Publication: University of Chicago Press, 2007

Title: Fighting over money


Authors: RE Wright

Publication: The Wilson Quarterly 31 (1), 98, 2007

Title: Firm Labor Choices in America before the Civil War: A Simple Model


Authors: RE Wright

Publication: Available at SSRN 980351, 2007