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: Interest rate risk, illiquid assets and information asymmetries: Balance sheet deterioration and” debtor” angst in colonial America


Authors: R Wright

Publication: JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC HISTORY 62 (2), 579-580, 2002

Title: Reforming the US IPO market: lessons from history and theory


Authors: RE Wright

Publication: Accounting, Business & Financial History 12 (3), 419-437, 2002

Title: The wealth of nations rediscovered: Integration and expansion in American financial markets, 1780-1850


Authors: RE Wright

Publication: Cambridge University Press, 2002

Title: A History of Banking in Antebellum America: Financial Markets and Economic Development in an Era of Nation-Building


Authors: RE Wright

Publication: Journal of Interdisciplinary History 32 (1), 140-141, 2001