Robert Wright

Robert Wright

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Robert Wright is the Nef Family Chair of Political Economy at Augustana College (SD), where he teaches courses in business, economic, financial and policy history. He is the author or co-author of 11 books and the editor or co-editor of 21 volumes, including most recently Bailouts: Public Money, Private Profit (Columbia University Press/SSRC, 2009), as well as One Nation Under Debt: Hamilton, Jefferson and the History of What We Owe (New York: McGraw-Hill, 2008), which explores the untold history of America’s first national debt, arising from the immense sums needed to conduct the American Revolution. Before coming to Augustana, Dr. Wright served as Clinical Associate Professor of Economics at the Stern School of Business, New York University.