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Robert E. Wright
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- Economic & Business History
- Money and Power
- Global Perspectives
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- Business, Economic, and Financial History
- Corporate Governance
- Public Policy
- Economic Growth and Development
- De Novo Banking
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Academic Background
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| PhD, History, 1997 | SUNY Buffalo | | MA, History, 1994 | SUNY Buffalo | | BA, History, 1990 | Buffalo State College |
Biography
Robert E. Wright is the author, co-author, editor, or co-editor of 14 major studies of the history of banks and banking, securities markets, corporate finance and governance, government debt, insurance, publishing, and construction, including most recently One Nation Under Debt: Hamilton, Jefferson, and the History of What We Owe (McGraw-Hill, March 2008). Work in progress includes a Yale University Press book co-authored with Ron Michener of the University of Virginia on the monetary causes of the American Revolution and an extensive study of entrepreneurship and corporate governance in early America with Stern professor Richard E. Sylla.
Professor Wright is also a curator for the Museum of American Finance and the academic editor of Pickering and Chatto's Financial History Monograph series. He sits on the investment committee of the Business History Conference and since 2006 has been the recipient of grants from the Virginia Historical Society, the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, and the National Science Foundation.
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