Robert E. Wright

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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 Review, Business History Review, Independent Review, Journal of Private Enterprise, Review 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: From British Peasants to Colonial American Farmers. By Allan Kulikoff. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000. Pp. xiii, 484. 22.50, paper.


Authors: RE Wright

Publication: The Journal of Economic History 61 (4), 1137-1138, 2001

Title: Origins of commercial banking in America, 1750-1800


Authors: RE Wright

Publication: Rowman & Littlefield, 2001

Title: The New Imperial Economy: The British Army and the American Frontier, 1764–l768. By Walter S. Dunn, Jr. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2001. Pp. viii, 208. $62.50.


Authors: RE Wright

Publication: The Journal of Economic History 61 (2), 574-575, 2001

Title: Capital Market Integration and Investment: Ownership of Corporate Equities in Antebellum Maine


Authors: RE Wright

Publication: New England Journal of History, 1-22, 2000

Title: Growing History: A Vision of Historical Renaissance Through Computerized Interactive Learning


Authors: RE Wright

Publication: History Computer Review 16 (2), 61-61, 2000

Title: Women and finance in the early national US


Authors: R Wright

Publication: Essays in History 42 (1), 2000