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: Godly Non-Profits: Extending the Porterfield Thesis


Authors: RE Wright

Publication: Human Flourishing: Economic Wisdom for a Fruitful Christian Vision of the …, 2020

Title: Liberty Befits All


Authors: RE Wright

Publication: The Independent Review 25 (3), 385-395, 2020

Title: Pandemics and Epidemics: Financial and Economic Effects


Authors: R Sylla, J Traflet, RE Wright

Publication: Financial History, 20-24, 2020

Title: Porterfield, Amanda. Corporate Spirit: Religion and the Rise of the Modern Corporation. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018.


Authors: R Wright

Publication: Essays in Economic & Business History 38, 361-364, 2020

Title: Postbellum Banking


Authors: R Wright

Publication: Oxford Research Encyclopedia of American History, 2020

Title: Reducing Recidivism


Authors: RE Wright

Publication: Available at SSRN 3733040, 2020