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'''Robert Eric Wright''' (born January 1, 1969<ref name=Congress>{{cite web |title= Wright, Robert E. (Robert Eric), 1969- |url= http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2001102169.html |publisher= Library of Congress |accessdate= 27 August 2015 |quote= data sheet (Robert Eric Wright; b. 01-01-69) }}</ref> 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 College (South Dakota)|Augustana College]] in [[Sioux Falls]], [[South Dakota]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.argusleader.com/article/20090513/NEWS/905130302/1001/news |title=Augustana can thank cheese for creation of economic chair &#124; argusleader.com |publisher=Argus Leader |date= |accessdate=2009-06-04}} {{Dead link|date=October 2010|bot=H3llBot}}</ref> He is also a research economist at the [[National Bureau of Economic Research]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nber.org/people/robert_wright |title=Robert E. Wright |publisher=Nber.org |date= |accessdate=2009-06-04}}</ref>
'''Robert Eric Wright''' (born January 1, 1969<ref name=Congress>{{cite web |title= Wright, Robert E. (Robert Eric), 1969- |url= http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2001102169.html |publisher= Library of Congress |accessdate= 27 August 2015 |quote= data sheet (Robert Eric Wright; b. 01-01-69) }}</ref> 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 College (South Dakota)|Augustana University]] in [[Sioux Falls]], [[South Dakota]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.argusleader.com/article/20090513/NEWS/905130302/1001/news |title=Augustana can thank cheese for creation of economic chair &#124; argusleader.com |publisher=Argus Leader |date= |accessdate=2009-06-04}} {{Dead link|date=October 2010|bot=H3llBot}}</ref> He is also a research economist at the [[National Bureau of Economic Research]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nber.org/people/robert_wright |title=Robert E. Wright |publisher=Nber.org |date= |accessdate=2009-06-04}}</ref>


== Education ==
== 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,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://buffalostate.edu/honors/x491.xml |title=All College Honors Program - Buffalo State College - About the Program - Alumni |publisher=Buffalostate.edu |date=1999-02-22 |accessdate=2009-06-04}}</ref> and the [[University at Buffalo]] (Ph.D., 1997).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://cas.buffalo.edu/depts/history/graduate/publications.shtml |title=Department of History, University at Buffalo |publisher=Cas.buffalo.edu |date= |accessdate=2009-06-04}}</ref>
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,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://buffalostate.edu/honors/x491.xml |title=All College Honors Program - Buffalo State College - About the Program - Alumni |publisher=Buffalostate.edu |date=1999-02-22 |accessdate=2009-06-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100528024707/http://www.buffalostate.edu/honors/x491.xml |archive-date=2010-05-28 |url-status=dead }}</ref> and the [[University at Buffalo]] (Ph.D., 1997).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://cas.buffalo.edu/depts/history/graduate/publications.shtml |title=Department of History, University at Buffalo |publisher=Cas.buffalo.edu |date= |accessdate=2009-06-04}}</ref>


== Research ==
== 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]].<ref>{{cite web | title = Wright, Robert E. (Robert Eric) 1969- |url=http://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n2001102169/ | publisher = [[OCLC]]}}</ref>
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]].<ref>{{cite web | title = Wright, Robert E. (Robert Eric) 1969- |url=http://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n2001102169/ | publisher = [[OCLC]]}}</ref>


Wright's writings include a book on the role the real estate mortgage crisis of the 1760s played in the American Revolution.{{cite book | last = Wright | first = Robert E. | title = Origins of commercial banking in America, 1750-1800 | publisher = Rowman & Littlefield | location = Lanham, Maryland | year = 2001 | isbn = 9780742520875 }}
Wright's writings include a book on the role the real estate mortgage crisis of the 1760s played in the American Revolution.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/30/weekinreview/30arango.html?_r=2&pagewanted=1&ref=weekinreview|title=The Housing-Bubble and the American Revolution|last=Arango|first=Tim|date=2008-11-30|work=The New York Times}}</ref>


Wright is a board member of Historians Against Slavery, an [[NGO]].<ref>{{cite web | title = Board members | url = http://www.historiansagainstslavery.org/main/staff-category/board-member/ | publisher = Historians Against Slavery }}</ref> He edits its books series with Cambridge University Press,<ref>{{cite web | title = Book series: Slaveries since Emancipation | url = http://www.cambridge.org/aus/series/sSeries.asp?code=SSE | publisher = [[Cambridge University]] }}</ref> "Slaveries Since Emancipation,"<ref>{{cite web | title = Book series: Slaveries since Emancipation | url = http://www.historiansagainstslavery.org/main/book-series/ | publisher = Historians Against Slavery }}</ref> and serves on HAS's public speakers bureau.<ref>{{cite web | title = Book series: Speakers Bureau | url = http://www.historiansagainstslavery.org/main/staff-category/speakers-bureau/ | publisher = Historians Against Slavery }}</ref> He is also associated with the [[Museum of American Finance]].<ref>{{cite web | title = Editorial Board: Dr. Robert E. Wright | url = http://www.moaf.org/publications-collections/financial-history-magazine/editorial-board | publisher = [[Museum of American Finance]] }}</ref>
Wright is a board member of Historians Against Slavery, an [[NGO]].<ref>{{cite web | title = Board members | url = http://www.historiansagainstslavery.org/main/staff-category/board-member/ | publisher = Historians Against Slavery }}</ref> He edits its books series with Cambridge University Press,<ref>{{cite web | title = Book series: Slaveries since Emancipation | url = http://www.cambridge.org/aus/series/sSeries.asp?code=SSE | publisher = [[Cambridge University]] }}</ref> "Slaveries Since Emancipation,"<ref>{{cite web | title = Book series: Slaveries since Emancipation | url = http://www.historiansagainstslavery.org/main/book-series/ | publisher = Historians Against Slavery }}</ref> and serves on HAS's public speakers bureau.<ref>{{cite web | title = Book series: Speakers Bureau | url = http://www.historiansagainstslavery.org/main/staff-category/speakers-bureau/ | publisher = Historians Against Slavery }}</ref> He is also associated with the [[Museum of American Finance]].<ref>{{cite web | title = Editorial Board: Dr. Robert E. Wright | url = http://www.moaf.org/publications-collections/financial-history-magazine/editorial-board | publisher = [[Museum of American Finance]] }}</ref>


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]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://chronicle.com/free/v48/i31/31b02001.htm |title=4/12/2002: A Market Solution to the Oversupply of Historians |publisher=The Chronicle |date= |accessdate=2009-06-04}}</ref> where he worked with Virginia economist [[Ron Michener]] in a dispute against [[Grubb]], an economist at the [[University of Delaware]], over the nature of colonial and early U.S. [[money]] and monetary systems.<ref>{{cite web | title = Michener Wright Comment | url = http://www.econjournalwatch.org/pdf/MichenerWrightCommentJanuary2006.pdf | date = January 2006 | format = pdf }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | title = Michener Wright Rejoinder | url = http://www.econjournalwatch.org/pdf/MichenerWrightRejoinderMay2006.pdf | date = May 2006 | format = pdf }}</ref>
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]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://chronicle.com/free/v48/i31/31b02001.htm |title=4/12/2002: A Market Solution to the Oversupply of Historians |publisher=The Chronicle |date= |accessdate=2009-06-04}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite web | title = Michener Wright Comment | url = http://www.econjournalwatch.org/pdf/MichenerWrightCommentJanuary2006.pdf | date = January 2006 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | title = Michener Wright Rejoinder | url = http://www.econjournalwatch.org/pdf/MichenerWrightRejoinderMay2006.pdf | date = May 2006 }}</ref>


== Selected bibliography ==
== Selected bibliography ==
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* {{cite book | last = Wright | first = Robert E. | title = Origins of commercial banking in America, 1750-1800 | publisher = Rowman & Littlefield | location = Lanham, Maryland | year = 2001 | isbn = 9780742520875 }}
* {{cite book | last = Wright | first = Robert E. | title = Origins of commercial banking in America, 1750-1800 | publisher = Rowman & Littlefield | location = Lanham, Maryland | year = 2001 | isbn = 9780742520875 }}
* {{cite book | last = Wright | first = Robert E. | title = Hamilton unbound finance and the creation of the American Republic | publisher = Greenwood Press | location = Westport, Connecticut | year = 2002 | isbn = 9780275978167 }}
* {{cite book | last = Wright | first = Robert E. | title = Hamilton unbound finance and the creation of the American Republic | publisher = Greenwood Press | location = Westport, Connecticut | year = 2002 | isbn = 9780275978167 }}
* {{cite book | last1 = Wright | first1 = Robert E. | last2 = Cowen | first2 = David J. | title = Financial founding fathers: the men who made America rich | publisher = University of Chicago Press | location = Chicago | year = 2006 | isbn = 9780226910680 }}
* {{cite book | last1 = Wright | first1 = Robert E. | last2 = Cowen | first2 = David J. | title = Financial founding fathers: the men who made America rich | publisher = University of Chicago Press | location = Chicago | year = 2006 | isbn = 9780226910680 | url-access = registration | url = https://archive.org/details/financialfoundin00wrig }}
* {{cite book | last = Wright | first = Robert E. | title = One nation under debt: Hamilton, Jefferson, and the history of what we owe | publisher = McGraw-Hill | location = New York | year = 2008 | isbn = 9780071543934 }}
* {{cite book | last = Wright | first = Robert E. | title = One nation under debt: Hamilton, Jefferson, and the history of what we owe | url = https://archive.org/details/onenationunderde0000wrig | url-access = registration | publisher = McGraw-Hill | location = New York | year = 2008 | isbn = 9780071543934 }}
* {{cite book | last = Wright | first = Robert E. | title = Bailouts: public money, private profit | publisher = Columbia University Press | location = New York | year = 2010 | isbn = 9780231521734 }}
* {{cite book | last = Wright | first = Robert E. | title = Bailouts: public money, private profit | publisher = Columbia University Press | location = New York | year = 2010 | isbn = 9780231521734 }}
* {{cite book | last = Wright | first = Robert E. | title = Corporation nation | publisher = University of Pennsylvania Press | location = Philadelphia | year = 2014 | isbn = 9780812245646 }}
* {{cite book | last = Wright | first = Robert E. | title = Corporation nation | publisher = University of Pennsylvania Press | location = Philadelphia | year = 2014 | isbn = 9780812245646 }}
* Wright, Robert E.; Sylla, Richard E. (2015). ''Genealogy of American finance''. New York: Columbia University Press. {{ISBN|9780231170260}}.
* Wright, Robert E. (2017). ''Poverty of slavery: How unfree labor pollutes the economy''. Palgrave Macmillan {{ISBN|978-3-319-48968-1}}.


=== Book chapters ===
=== 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. {{ISBN|9780226451107}}.
* {{citation | last1 = Wright | first1 = Robert E. | last2 = Ermisch | first2 = John F. | contribution = Gender discrimination in the British labour market: a reassessment | editor-last = Humphries | editor-first = Jane | editor-link = Jane Humphries | title = Gender and economics | pages = 467–480 | publisher = Edward Elgar | location = Aldershot, England Brookfield, Vermont, USA | year = 1995 | isbn = 9781852788438 | ref = harv | postscript = .}}


=== Journal articles ===
=== Journal articles ===
* Wright, Robert E.; Kingston, Christopher. (2010) "The Deadliest of Games: The Institution of Dueling," ''Southern Economic Journal'' 76, 4:1094-1106.
* {{Cite journal | last1 = Wright | first1 = Robert E. | last2 = Ermisch | first2 = John F. | title = Gender discrimination in the British labour market: a reassessment | journal = [[The Economic Journal]] | volume = 101 | issue = 406 | pages = 508–522 | publisher = [[Royal Economic Society]] via [[Wiley-Blackwell|Wiley]] | doi = 10.2307/2233556 | jstor = 2233556 | date = May 1991 | url = http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2233556 | ref = harv | postscript = .}}


=== News articles ===
=== News articles ===
* {{cite news | last = Wright | first = Robert E.|url=http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/1447409901.html?dids=1447409901:1447409901&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Mar+18%2C+2008&author=Robert+E.+Wright&pub=Los+Angeles+Times&edition=&startpage=A.19&desc=The+party's+over%3B+Democrats+and+Republicans+offer+no+choice+when+it+comes+to+the+economy.+Let's+start+fresh | title = The party's over; Democrats and Republicans offer no choice when it comes to the economy. Let's start fresh |publisher=Pqasb.pqarchiver.com |date=2008-03-18 }}
* {{cite news | last = Wright | first = Robert E.|url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/1447409901.html?dids=1447409901:1447409901&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Mar+18%2C+2008&author=Robert+E.+Wright&pub=Los+Angeles+Times&edition=&startpage=A.19&desc=The+party%27s+over%3B+Democrats+and+Republicans+offer+no+choice+when+it+comes+to+the+economy.+Let%27s+start+fresh |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130201095758/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/1447409901.html?dids=1447409901:1447409901&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Mar+18,+2008&author=Robert+E.+Wright&pub=Los+Angeles+Times&edition=&startpage=A.19&desc=The+party's+over;+Democrats+and+Republicans+offer+no+choice+when+it+comes+to+the+economy.+Let's+start+fresh |url-status=dead |archive-date=February 1, 2013 | title = The party's over; Democrats and Republicans offer no choice when it comes to the economy. Let's start fresh |publisher=Pqasb.pqarchiver.com |date=2008-03-18 }}
* {{cite news | last = Wright | first = Robert E. |url=http://www.mckinseyquarterly.com/Financial_crisis_and_reform_Looking_back_for_clues_to_the_future_2271 | title = Financial crisis and reform - The McKinsey Quarterly - Financial crisis and reform: Looking back for clues to the future - Strategy - Strategic Thinking |work =The McKinsey Quarterly |date= December 2008 }}
* {{cite news | last = Wright | first = Robert E. |url=http://www.mckinseyquarterly.com/Financial_crisis_and_reform_Looking_back_for_clues_to_the_future_2271 | title = Financial crisis and reform - The McKinsey Quarterly - Financial crisis and reform: Looking back for clues to the future - Strategy - Strategic Thinking |work =The McKinsey Quarterly |date= December 2008 }}


== Further reading ==
== Further reading ==
* {{cite news| url=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/30/weekinreview/30arango.html?_r=2&pagewanted=1&ref=weekinreview | work=The New York Times | title=The Housing-Bubble and the American Revolution | first=Tim | last=Arango | date=2008-11-30 }}
* {{cite news| url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/30/weekinreview/30arango.html?_r=2&pagewanted=1&ref=weekinreview | work=The New York Times | title=The Housing-Bubble and the American Revolution | first=Tim | last=Arango | date=2008-11-30 }}
* {{cite web|url=http://w4.stern.nyu.edu/news/news.cfm?doc_id=100543 |title=NYU Stern |publisher=W4.stern.nyu.edu |date= }}
* {{cite web|url=http://w4.stern.nyu.edu/news/news.cfm?doc_id=100543 |title=NYU Stern |publisher=W4.stern.nyu.edu |date= }}
* {{cite web|url=http://www.onpointradio.org/2008/10/bailouts-then-and-now?autostart=true |title=Bailouts, Then and Now &#124; WBUR and NPR - On Point with Tom Ashbrook |publisher=Onpointradio.org |date=2008-10-06 }}
* {{cite web|url=http://www.onpointradio.org/2008/10/bailouts-then-and-now?autostart=true |title=Bailouts, Then and Now &#124; WBUR and NPR - On Point with Tom Ashbrook |publisher=Onpointradio.org |date=2008-10-06 }}
* {{cite web|last=Greising |first=David |url=http://archives.chicagotribune.com/2008/sep/23/business/chi-tue-capitalism-shakeupsep23 |title=Rescue must weigh safety vs. freedom - Chicago Tribune |publisher=Archives.chicagotribune.com |date=September 23, 2008 }}
* {{cite web|last=Greising |first=David |url=http://archives.chicagotribune.com/2008/sep/23/business/chi-tue-capitalism-shakeupsep23 |title=Rescue must weigh safety vs. freedom - Chicago Tribune |publisher=Archives.chicagotribune.com |date=September 23, 2008 }}
* {{cite web|last=Phillips |first=Michael M. |url=http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122186662036058787.html |title=Government Bailouts: A U.S. Tradition Dating to Hamilton - WSJ.com |publisher=Online.wsj.com |date=2008-09-20 }}
* {{cite web|last=Phillips |first=Michael M. |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB122186662036058787 |title=Government Bailouts: A U.S. Tradition Dating to Hamilton - WSJ.com |publisher=Online.wsj.com |date=2008-09-20 }}
* {{cite web|last=Ward |first=Jon |url=http://washingtontimes.com/news/2008/oct/03/bill-would-hand-paulson-unprecedented-authority/?page=3 |title=Bill gives Paulson unprecedented power |publisher=Washington Times |date=2008-10-03 }}
* {{cite web|last=Ward |first=Jon |url=http://washingtontimes.com/news/2008/oct/03/bill-would-hand-paulson-unprecedented-authority/?page=3 |title=Bill gives Paulson unprecedented power |work=Washington Times |date=2008-10-03 }}
* {{cite news | first1=Tim | last1=Arango | first2=Julie | last2=Creswell| url=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/05/business/05era.html?_r=1&pagewanted=4 | work=The New York Times | title=End of an Era on Wall Street: Goodbye to All That | date=2008-10-05 }}
* {{cite news | first1=Tim | last1=Arango | first2=Julie | last2=Creswell| url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/05/business/05era.html?_r=1&pagewanted=4 | work=The New York Times | title=End of an Era on Wall Street: Goodbye to All That | date=2008-10-05 }}
* {{cite news|author=DAVID LAZARUS, CONSUMER CONFIDENTIAL October 05, 2008 |url=http://articles.latimes.com/2008/oct/05/business/fi-lazarus5 |title=$10.1-trillion national debt? Let's cut taxes! - Los Angeles Times |publisher=Articles.latimes.com |date = October 5, 2008 }}
* {{cite news|author=DAVID LAZARUS, CONSUMER CONFIDENTIAL October 05, 2008 |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-oct-05-fi-lazarus5-story.html |title=$10.1-trillion national debt? Let's cut taxes! - Los Angeles Times |publisher=Articles.latimes.com |date = October 5, 2008 }}
* {{cite web |url=http://reason.com/news/show/126021.html |title=The Coming Recession: Seven observers debate the (sorry) state of the economy. - Reason Magazine |publisher=Reason.com |date= June 2008 }}
* {{cite web |url=http://reason.com/news/show/126021.html |title=The Coming Recession: Seven observers debate the (sorry) state of the economy. - Reason Magazine |publisher=Reason.com |date= June 2008 }}
* {{cite web|url=https://www.economy.com/home/login/ds_proLogin.asp?script_name=/dismal/pro/article.asp&cid=103884 |title=Rx for a Vulnerable Economy: Cut Down on Debt |publisher=Economy.com |date= }}
* {{cite web|url=https://www.economy.com/home/login/ds_proLogin.asp?script_name=/dismal/pro/article.asp&cid=103884 |title=Rx for a Vulnerable Economy: Cut Down on Debt |publisher=Economy.com |date= }}
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== External links ==
== External links ==
* [http://www.nber.org/people/robert_wright Robert E. Wright], [[National Bureau of Economic Research]]
* [http://www.nber.org/people/robert_wright Robert E. Wright], [[National Bureau of Economic Research]]
* {{C-SPAN}}


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Not to be confused with the Scottish economist Robert E. Wright, University of Strathclyde.
Robert E. Wright
Born
Robert Eric Wright

(1969-01-01) January 1, 1969 (age 55)
Rochester, N.Y.
NationalityAmerican
Academic career
FieldEconomic history of America
InstitutionAugustana University, Sioux Falls, South Dakota
Alma materUniversity at Buffalo

Robert Eric Wright (born January 1, 1969[1] 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.[2] He is also a research economist at the National Bureau of Economic Research.[3]

Education

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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,[4] and the University at Buffalo (Ph.D., 1997).[5]

Research

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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.[6]

Wright's writings include a book on the role the real estate mortgage crisis of the 1760s played in the American Revolution.[7]

Wright is a board member of Historians Against Slavery, an NGO.[8] He edits its books series with Cambridge University Press,[9] "Slaveries Since Emancipation,"[10] and serves on HAS's public speakers bureau.[11] He is also associated with the Museum of American Finance.[12]

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,[13] 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.[14][15]

Selected bibliography

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Books

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  • Wright, Robert E. (2001). Origins of commercial banking in America, 1750-1800. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 9780742520875.
  • Wright, Robert E. (2002). Hamilton unbound finance and the creation of the American Republic. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press. ISBN 9780275978167.
  • Wright, Robert E.; Cowen, David J. (2006). Financial founding fathers: the men who made America rich. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. ISBN 9780226910680.
  • Wright, Robert E. (2008). One nation under debt: Hamilton, Jefferson, and the history of what we owe. New York: McGraw-Hill. ISBN 9780071543934.
  • Wright, Robert E. (2010). Bailouts: public money, private profit. New York: Columbia University Press. ISBN 9780231521734.
  • Wright, Robert E. (2014). Corporation nation. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. ISBN 9780812245646.
  • Wright, Robert E.; Sylla, Richard E. (2015). Genealogy of American finance. New York: Columbia University Press. ISBN 9780231170260.
  • Wright, Robert E. (2017). Poverty of slavery: How unfree labor pollutes the economy. Palgrave Macmillan ISBN 978-3-319-48968-1.

Book chapters

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  • 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. ISBN 9780226451107.

Journal articles

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

News articles

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Further reading

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References

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  1. ^ "Wright, Robert E. (Robert Eric), 1969-". Library of Congress. Retrieved 27 August 2015. data sheet (Robert Eric Wright; b. 01-01-69)
  2. ^ "Augustana can thank cheese for creation of economic chair | argusleader.com". Argus Leader. Retrieved 2009-06-04. [dead link]
  3. ^ "Robert E. Wright". Nber.org. Retrieved 2009-06-04.
  4. ^ "All College Honors Program - Buffalo State College - About the Program - Alumni". Buffalostate.edu. 1999-02-22. Archived from the original on 2010-05-28. Retrieved 2009-06-04.
  5. ^ "Department of History, University at Buffalo". Cas.buffalo.edu. Retrieved 2009-06-04.
  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. Retrieved 2009-06-04.
  14. ^ "Michener Wright Comment" (PDF). January 2006.
  15. ^ "Michener Wright Rejoinder" (PDF). May 2006.
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