Robert E. Wright

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Robert E. Wright
Born
Robert Eric Wright

(1969-01-01) January 1, 1969 (age 55)
Nationality American
Academic career
Institution Augustana University, Sioux Falls, South Dakota
FieldEconomic history of America
Alma mater University 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]

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

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. [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]

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References

  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.