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Robert Wright, PhD

Lecturer, Department of Economics, University of Virginia, and Professor, Master of Arts in Professional Studies Program, Thomas Edison State College

PhD, State University of New York at Buffalo
MA, State University of New York at Buffalo

Dr. Wright is a lecturer in the Department of Economics at the University of Virginia and an Instructor in the Master of Arts in Professional Studies program at Thomas Edison State College. He is the author of The Wealth of Nations Rediscovered: Integration and Expansion in American Financial Markets, 1780-1850, and Hamilton Unbound: Finance and the Creation of the American Republic. Dr. Wright is a consulting editor for EH.Net Encyclopedia and a member of the book review board of Business History Review. He has presented at more than 30 conferences and published many essays on economic history.