Robert E. Wright is a Clinical Associate Professor of Economics at the Stern School of Business at New York University. He is the author of ten books on financial history, publishing, and the economics of construction and other lagging sectors, including most recently "One Nation Under Debt: Hamilton, Jefferson, and the History of What We Owe" (McGraw-Hill, March 2008). The current economic crisis has kept him busy - his commentary has been featured in Barron's, the Chicago Tribune, CNN, the Los Angeles Times, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and the Washington Post - to name a few. Luckily for us, he is a disciplined guy and his book is still coming out on time!
Professor Wright is currently working on 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.
Since 2003, Robert E. Wright has taught "Money and Power" and other courses at New York University's Stern School of Business. Before that, he taught Money and Banking at the University of Virginia.