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: Business, Religion, History, and Consilience


Authors: RE Wright

Publication: The Business Turn in American Religious History, vii-xix, 2017

Title: Corporate Social Responsibility and the Rise of the Non-profit Sector in America


Authors: RE Wright

Publication: A History of Socially Responsible Business, c. 1600–1950, 117-135, 2017

Title: Economic Growth and Slavery, Then and Now


Authors: RE Wright

Publication: Financial History, 11, 2017

Title: Financing US economic growth, 1790-1860: corporations, markets, and the real economy


Authors: RE Wright

Publication: Financial System and Economic Growth: Credit, Crises and Regulation from the …, 2017

Title: From Jim Crow Finance to Subprime Shenanigans: Expunging Financial Exclusion, Discrimination, and Predation from America


Authors: RE Wright

Publication: Discrimination, and Predation from America (February 4, 2017), 2017

Title: Michael A. McCarthy. Dismantling Solidarity: Capitalist Politics and American Pensions since the New Deal.


Authors: RE Wright

Publication: The American Historical Review 122 (5), 1643-1644, 2017