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: Ground rents against populist historiography: Mid-Atlantic land tenure, 1750-1820


Authors: RE Wright

Publication: The Journal of Interdisciplinary History 29 (1), 23-42, 1998

Title: America‘s first securities markets, 1790-1830: Emergence, development, and integration


Authors: R Sylla, JW Wilson, RE Wright

Publication: Cliometrics Conference paper, 1997

Title: Banking and Politics in New York, 1784-1829


Authors: RE Wright

Publication: State University of New York at Buffalo, 1997

Title: The First Phase of the Empire State’s “Triple Transition”: Banks’ Influence on the Market, Democracy, and Federalism in New York, 1776–1838


Authors: RE Wright

Publication: Social Science History 21 (4), 521-558, 1997

Title: Thomas Willing (1731-1821): Philadelphia financier and forgotten founding father


Authors: RE Wright

Publication: Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies, 525-560, 1996

Title: Four Databases for Microsoft Windows


Authors: RE Wright

Publication: History and Computing 6 (2), 116-124, 1994