Robert E. Wright

Robert E. Wright is the (co)author or (co)editor of over two dozen major books, book series, and edited collections, including AIER’s The Best of Thomas Paine (2021) and Financial Exclusion (2019). He has also (co)authored numerous articles for important journals, including the American Economic ReviewBusiness History ReviewIndependent ReviewJournal of Private EnterpriseReview of Finance, and Southern Economic Review. Robert has taught business, economics, and policy courses at Augustana University, NYU’s Stern School of Business, Temple University, the University of Virginia, and elsewhere since taking his Ph.D. in History from SUNY Buffalo in 1997. Robert E. Wright was formerly a Senior Research Faculty at the American Institute for Economic Research.

Find Robert

  1. SSRN: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=362640
  2. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3792-3506
  3. Academia: https://robertwright.academia.edu/
  4. Google: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=D9Qsx6QAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=sra
  5. Twitter, Gettr, and Parler: @robertewright
  • The Property Instinct and the Utter Futility of Socialism

    “‘Ideal’ socialism systematizes legalized theft and hence will be resisted in ways large and small, rendering it less productive than systems that recognize the way humans naturally cognize property.”~ Robert E. Wright

    The Property Instinct and the Utter Futility of Socialism
  • Coin Can’t Save US from Debt Crisis

    “If Treasury can just slap a figure on a hunk of metal and demand that the Federal Reserve credit its account with that figure, it could force the creation of as much money as the politicians controlling it want.” ~ Robert E. Wright

    Coin Can’t Save US from Debt Crisis
  • A Tale of Two Letters

    “I can imagine writing, and have written, two letters of advice to my two sons upon their graduations from high school and college, the first if the trajectory of February 2020 had continued and the second given what has actually transpired since.” ~ Robert E. Wright

    A Tale of Two Letters
  • Treason and Its Misprision

    “All Americans had better tell POTUS or a judge right quick that they may have witnessed treason during the Afghanistan debacle or we may all need amnesty for misprision of treason!” ~ Robert E. Wright

    Treason and Its Misprision
  • And Secure the Blessings of Liberty

    “The government should protect Americans’ lives, liberty and property from foes foreign and domestic, and no more.” ~ Robert E. Wright

    And Secure the Blessings of Liberty
  • Uncle Sam’s Hamartia = Your Early Death

    “Public health bureaucrats simply have no incentive to keep Americans healthy. Their budgets are misallocated and will continue to be so until their incentives are better aligned with those of American citizens.” ~ Robert E. Wright

    Uncle Sam’s Hamartia = Your Early Death
  • America’s Medici Moment?

    “And thus corporations are led, by an invisible hand, to promote an end which was no part of their intention, the simultaneous enrichment of themselves and empowerment of party partisans.” ~ Robert E. Wright

    America’s Medici Moment?
  • The Year of Corporate Discontent

    “If you thought things were crazy on the corporate scene over the last few years, you should check out what happened in 1970. It is the stuff of blockbuster books and movies.” ~ Robert E. Wright

    The Year of Corporate Discontent
  • Incremental or Radical Policy Reform?

    “Incrementalists and radical advocates of liberty should not joust each other too much because they face a formidable common enemy, paternalistic statists who assume, rather than establish, the superiority of top-down, one-size-fits-all government ‘solutions’ to individual problems.” ~ Robert E. Wright

    Incremental or Radical Policy Reform?
  • Stakeholders v. Stockholders

    “Most investors don’t want the corporations they own to oppose X or support Y and those who do are free to reinvest dividends or the profits from stock sales in whatever lawful causes they wish.” ~ Robert E. Wright

    Stakeholders v. Stockholders