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: Founding Corporate Power in Early National Philadelphia


Authors: RE Wright

Publication: The Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 105 (2), 295-297, 2007

Title: Old Dominion Industrial Commonwealth: Coal, Politics, and Economy in Antebellum America


Authors: RE Wright

Publication: Journal of Interdisciplinary History 37 (4), 636-637, 2007

Title: On the economic efficiency of organizations: Toward a solution of the efficient government enterprise paradox


Authors: R Wright

Publication: Essays in Economic & Business History 25, 143-154, 2007

Title: Wright, Slavery and American Economic Development


Authors: RE Wright

Publication: REGISTER-KENTUCKY HISTORICAL SOCIETY 105 (1), 121, 2007

Title: Development of the US monetary union


Authors: R Michener, RE Wright

Publication: Financial History Review 13 (1), 19-41, 2006

Title: Entrepreneurship in Pre-War South Carolina: A Case of Southern Corporate Capitalism


Authors: RE Wright

Publication: Available at SSRN 942678, 2006