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: Early American Tax Havens


Authors: RE Wright

Publication: Available at SSRN 3182496, 2018

Title: For-and non-profit special corporations in America, 1608–1860


Authors: RE Wright

Publication: Research Handbook on the History of Corporate and Company Law, 480-509, 2018

Title: How Economics Professors Can Stop Failing Us: The Discipline at a Crossroads


Authors: RE Wright

Publication: Financial History, 40-40, 2018

Title: Making IT Work: A History of the Computer Services Industry


Authors: RE Wright

Publication: Journal of American History 105 (3), 770-771, 2018

Title: Pioneer financial news: National broadcast Journalist Wilma Soss, NBC radio, 1954–1980


Authors: RE Wright

Publication: Journalism History 44 (3), 138-149, 2018