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.
[5] 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.
[8] He edits its books series with Cambridge University Press,[9] "Slaveries Since Emancipation,"[10] and serves on HAS's public speakers bureau.
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.