Education
After graduating from Fairport High School in 1987, Wright took degrees in History from Buffalo State College, where he was a member of the All-College Honors Program, and the University at Buffalo (Doctor of Philosophy, 1997).
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He is also a research economist at the National Bureau of Economic 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. Wright"s writings include a book on the role the real estate mortgage crisis of the 1760s played in the American Revolution. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield.
He edits its books series with Cambridge University Press, "Slaveries Since Emancipation," and serves on HAS"s public speakers bureau.
He is also associated with the Museum of American Finance. Wright taught at New York University’s Stern School of Business from 2003 until 2009.
Before that, Wright taught economics at the University of Virginia, where he worked with Virginia economist Ron Michener in a dispute against Grubb, an economist at the University of Delaware, over the nature of colonial and early United States. money and monetary systems
Membership
Wright is a board member of Historians Against Slavery, an non-governmental organization.
