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: That Which Is Unseen I: Slavery’s Pollution


Authors: RE Wright, RE Wright

Publication: The Poverty of Slavery: How Unfree Labor Pollutes the Economy, 143-197, 2017

Title: The Musical” Hamilton” from the Perspective of Financial History, in Verse


Authors: RE Wright

Publication: The Independent Review 21 (4), 535-544, 2017

Title: The poverty of slavery: How unfree labor pollutes the economy


Authors: RE Wright

Publication: Springer, 2017

Title: The World’s First Stock Exchange


Authors: RE Wright

Publication: The Historian 79 (1), 189-191, 2017

Title: Christopher Beauchamp. Invented by Law: Alexander Graham Bell and the Patent That Changed America.


Authors: RE Wright

Publication: The American Historical Review 121 (1), 246-247, 2016