Robert E Wright

Dados Biográficos

ID235545
NOMERobert E Wright
PRENOMESRobert E
SOBRENOMEWright
ASSINATURAWRIGHT R E
AFILIAÇÕESUniversity of Stirling
ORCID0000-0002-3222-1989
VERIFICADOSim
TOTAL DE OBRAS69
TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES129
TOTAL COMO AUTOR69
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO1987
ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO2026
ÍNDICE H7

  • Beers in stock

    Jason E Taylor, Robert E Wright et al.ARTICLEBusiness History2026Referências: 23

  • Occupational Liberty and Licensing before the US Civil War

    Open AccessRobert E WrightARTICLEJournal of Policy History2025

    Prior to the Civil War, the US and state governments required the modern licensing of only three occupations, doctors, lawyers, and ship pilots. Most other references to licensing in the 15,000 surveyed antebellum statutes referred to licensing in general terms. Those that referred to the “licensing” of occupations clearly referenced a type of tax or regulation of occupations thought sinful or diplomatically sensitive, like Indian trading and pri…

  • FDR’s Long New Deal

    Open AccessRobert E WrightBOOKFDR’s Long New Deal2024

  • Revitalizing the American Republic by reinvigorating voluntary association

    Open AccessRobert E WrightARTICLEDiscover Global Society2024

    In Democracy in America , Alexis de Tocqueville famously described the depth and breadth of voluntary association in the antebellum United States. Recent empirical research shows that de Tocqueville did not exaggerate. Between the founding of the republic in 1788 and the start of their Civil War in 1861, Americans voluntarily chartered over 23,000 business and over 15,000 nonprofit corporations across a wide swathe of activity. Contrary to the “s…

  • Debating Universal Basic Income

    Open AccessRobert E Wright, Aleksandra PrzegalińskaBOOKDebating Universal Basic Income2022

  • Money, Power, and the People

    Robert E WrightARTICLEThe Journal of Interdisciplinary…2022

    Money, Power, and the People asserts that common Americans fed up with the repeated financial panics and economic downturns of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries fixed the American banking system with New Deal banking reforms like federal-deposit insurance. In the decades of banking stability that followed World War II, however, the people forgot how to conduct “banking politics,” creating a vacuum that allowed bankers to exert “private…

  • Ai

    Open AccessAleksandra Przegalińska, Robert E WrightARTICLEFrontiers in Human Dynamics2021Referências: 22

    Positive and normative claims that artificial intelligence (AI) will or should lead to adoption of a universal basic income policy (UBI) remain insufficiently empirically grounded to merit serious consideration. Long-term trends in individual/familial income portfolio adjustment (IPA) to business, economic, and technological change (BETC) point to continued incremental changes in the ways that individuals/families achieve life goals, not a fundam…

  • Michael Anderson, Scotland's Populations

    Open AccessRobert E WrightARTICLEJournal of Scottish Historical…2021

  • Sowing the Seeds of a Future Crisis

    Open AccessAndrew Smith, Robert E WrightARTICLEThe Business History Review2021Referências: 36

    Since 2008, academics and policymakers have frequently debated why bond rating agencies such as Moody's, S&P, and Fitch enjoy considerable power and influence. The 2008 financial crisis focused our attention on the bond rating agencies that had previously categorized mortgage-backed securities as investment grade. Scholars have attributed the power enjoyed by the rating agencies to regulations that confer a privileged status on those agencies tha…

  • Radical Hamilton

    Robert E WrightARTICLEThe Journal of Interdisciplinary…2021

    Parenti argues that Alexander Hamilton would support a “green reindustrialization” today on the basis of his discovery that Hamilton was an economic interventionist with “profoundly statist economic views” (237 [emphasis in the original], 2). All three claims are demonstrably false. A novel, nuanced, and empirically defensible view would hold that Hamilton sought to nudge the economy, not to manage it.Serious Hamilton scholars like Michael Newton…

  • Exploring the gender difference in multiple job holding

    Open AccessAlison Preston, Robert E WrightARTICLEIndustrial Relations Journal2020

    This article examines the determinants of the gender gap in multiple job holding in Australia using all 18 waves (2001–2018) of the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) survey. In Australia, like most high‐income countries, the multiple job holding rate is higher for women compared with men. The empirical analysis focuses on the role played by factors such as wage rates, hours worked, household wealth, job security, educatio…

  • The limits of female policy punditry

    Robert E WrightARTICLEMedia History2020Referências: 2

    Wilma Soss, professional stockholder/corporate activist, president of a major economic feminist NGO, and host of her own weekly NBC radio show, was one of the most successful female policy pundits in America during the third quarter of the twentieth century. Her relative success, however, did not help women to break male dominance of punditry because her policy critiques were interpreted through gendered lenses that cast them as female views rath…

  • Shortfall

    Open AccessRobert E WrightARTICLEJournal of Social History2019

    Why did Alice Echols, holder of a chair in gender studies and author of books on disco, Janis Joplin, and radical feminism, write a financial history? The trite answer is that she found a trove of untouched banking documents in her family’s attic. A deeper answer is that the Zeitgeist is changing historiography such that cultural historians are increasingly interested in business, economics, and finance, topics that for over thirty years have bee…

  • American Default

    Robert E WrightARTICLEThe Journal of Interdisciplinary…2019Referências: 4

    The notion that America, like the Lannisters from Game of Thrones, always pays its debts is subject to several caveats. In American Default, Edwards describes the most controversial and complex example of a possible U.S. federal government default, the demonetization of gold, the devaluation of the dollar, and the abrogation of the gold clause in bonds issued both governmentally and privately during the New Deal. His methodology entails old-schoo…

  • Effect of Retirement on Cognition

    Open AccessIrene Mosca, Robert E WrightARTICLEDemography2018Citada por: 1Referências: 40

    This study empirically investigates the relationship between retirement duration and cognition among older Irish women using microdata collected in the third wave of The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing. Ordinary least squares (OLS) regression estimates indicate that the longer an individual has been retired, the lower the cognitive functioning, with other factors thought to affect cognition held constant (e.g., age, education, and early-life s…

  • Making IT Work

    Robert E WrightARTICLEJournal of American History2018

    In Making IT Work Jeffrey Yost synthesizes what little is known about the history of the computer services (IT) industry in the United States and abroad and deftly combines that knowledge with his own considerable archival work. As the book's subtitle suggests, the narrative sticks closely to the development of computer services—business data processing, computer consulting, facilities management, programming services, and systems integration—so …

  • The Poverty of Slavery

    Open AccessRobert E WrightBOOKPoverty of Slavery2017

    This ground-breaking book adds an economic angle to a traditionally moral argument, demonstrating that slavery has never promoted economic growth or development, neither today nor in the past. While unfree labor may be lucrative for slaveholders, its negative effects on a country's economy, much like pollution, drag down all members of society. Tracing the history of slavery around the world, from prehistory through the US Antebellum South to the…

  • Michael A. McCarthy. Dismantling Solidarity

    Robert E WrightARTICLEThe American Historical Review2017

  • Susie J. Pak. Gentlemen Bankers

    Robert E WrightARTICLEThe American Historical Review2014

    In Gentlemen Bankers, historian Susie J. Pak offers an intriguing and generally well-written social history of the partners of storied investment bank J. P. Morgan & Co. and associated companies (the “House of Morgan”) and one of its major competitors, Kuhn, Loeb & Co. Based on secondary sources, new interpretations of standard primary sources, and hitherto rarely consulted archival sources, this book can be considered part of an emerging literat…

  • Corporation formation in the antebellum United States in comparative context

    Richard Sylla, Robert E WrightARTICLEBusiness History2013Citada por: 4Referências: 26

    Between 1790 and 1860, US state governments chartered 22,419 businesses, with minimum authorised capital totalling $4.58 billion, by special statute. The US, in both total and per capita terms, had considerably more corporations and authorised corporate capital than the UK, France or Prussia did over that same span. Differences in incorporation and capitalisation rates between nations were largely a function of differences in laws and politics bu…

  • The Impact of Population Ageing on House Prices

    Open AccessYu Chen, Kenneth Gibb et al.ARTICLEScottish Journal of Political…2012Citada por: 2

    This study attempts to estimate the impact of population ageing on house prices. There is considerable debate about whether population ageing puts downwards or upwards pressure on house prices. The empirical approach differs from earlier studies of this relationship, which are mainly regression analyses of macro time‐series data. A micro‐simulation methodology is adopted that combines a macro‐level house price model with a micro‐level household f…

  • Demographic Change and Housing Markets

    Open AccessRobert E Wright, Tim BarmbyARTICLEScottish Journal of Political…2012

  • Corporate Insurers in Antebellum America

    Open AccessRobert E Wright, Christopher KingstonARTICLEThe Business History Review2012Citada por: 1Referências: 24

    Over the last fifteen years, scholars have documented the rapid development of the U.S. financial system between the ratification of the Constitution in 1788 and the Civil War. To date, most of this work has concentrated on commercial banks and securities markets while neglecting the roles early marine, fire, life, and other insurers played in American financial and economic development. This article seeks to redress the balance by presenting new…

  • The Age of Deficits

    Robert E WrightARTICLEJournal of American History2012

    Written by the University of London professor Iwan Morgan, The Age of Deficits is a political and intellectual history of the handling of U.S. federal budget policy from 1977 to 2009, a period during which budget deficits became both larger (as a percentage of the total economy) and more frequent. Published in 2009, the book predicts, presciently given the 2011 debt-ceiling debate and Treasury bond rating downgrade, “a day of reckoning in the for…

  • When money was in fashion

    Robert E WrightARTICLEBusiness History2010

    When money was in fashion: Henry Goldman, Goldman Sachs, and the founding of Wall Street, by June Breton Fisher, New York, Palgrave Macmillan, 2010, viii + 278 pp., illus., $27.00 (hardback), ISBN