Robert E. Wright

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American historian (born 1969)

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| url = | module = | repec_prefix = | repec_id = | notes = Robert Eric Wright (born January 1, 1969 in Rochester, N.Y.) is a business, economic, financial, and monetary historian and the inaugural Rudy and Marilyn Nef Family Chair of Political Economy at Augustana University in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. He is also a research economist at the National Bureau of Economic Research.

Education

After graduating from Fairport High School in 1987, Wright took degrees in History from Buffalo State College, where he was a member of the All-College Honors Program, and the University at Buffalo (Ph.D., 1997).

Research

Since 2001, he has authored, co-authored, edited, or co-edited twenty books on topics including banks and banking, book publishing, construction, corporations, corporate genealogy, and corporate governance, economic indicators, entrepreneurship, government bailouts, insurance, money and monetary policy, public debts, public policies, and securities markets.

Wright's writings include a book on the role the real estate mortgage crisis of the 1760s played in the American Revolution.

Wright is a board member of Historians Against Slavery, an NGO. He edits its books series with Cambridge University Press, "Slaveries Since Emancipation," and serves on HAS's public speakers bureau. He is also associated with the Museum of American Finance.

Wright taught at New York University's Stern School of Business from 2003 until 2009. Before that, Wright taught economics at the University of Virginia, where he worked with Virginia economist Ron Michener in a dispute against Dr. Farley Grubb, an economist at the University of Delaware, over the nature of colonial and early U.S. money and monetary systems.

Selected bibliography

Books

  • Wright, Robert E.; Sylla, Richard E. (2015). Genealogy of American finance. New York: Columbia University Press. .
  • Wright, Robert E. (2017). Poverty of Slavery: How Unfree Labor Pollutes the Economy. Palgrave Macmillan .

Book chapters

  • Wright, Robert E. (2012). "Capitalism in Early America: Rise of the Corporation Nation." In Gary Kornblith and Michael Zakim, eds., Capitalism Takes Command: The Social Transformation of Nineteenth Century America. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. .

Journal articles

  • Wright, Robert E.; Kingston, Christopher. (2010) "The Deadliest of Games: The Institution of Dueling," Southern Economic Journal 76, 4:1094-1106.

News articles

References

References

  1. "Wright, Robert E. (Robert Eric), 1969-". Library of Congress.
  2. "Augustana can thank cheese for creation of economic chair | argusleader.com". Argus Leader.
  3. "Robert E. Wright". Nber.org.
  4. (1999-02-22). "All College Honors Program - Buffalo State College - About the Program - Alumni". Buffalostate.edu.
  5. "Department of History, University at Buffalo". Cas.buffalo.edu.
  6. "Wright, Robert E. (Robert Eric) 1969-". [[OCLC]].
  7. Arango, Tim. (2008-11-30). "The Housing-Bubble and the American Revolution". The New York Times.
  8. "Board members". Historians Against Slavery.
  9. "Book series: Slaveries since Emancipation". [[Cambridge University]].
  10. "Book series: Slaveries since Emancipation". Historians Against Slavery.
  11. "Book series: Speakers Bureau". Historians Against Slavery.
  12. "Editorial Board: Dr. Robert E. Wright". [[Museum of American Finance]].
  13. "4/12/2002: A Market Solution to the Oversupply of Historians". The Chronicle.
  14. (January 2006). "Michener Wright Comment".
  15. (May 2006). "Michener Wright Rejoinder".

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