Author: Robert E. Wright

Robert E. Wright took his Ph.D. in History from SUNY Buffalo in 1997. He has taught economics for the University of Virginia, New York University, Augustana University, and now Central Michigan University, where he teaches law and economics and U.S. economic history. He also (co)authored or (co)edited 31 books, including his latest two, Liberty Lost, which counts and describes the antebellum nonprofits made famous by DeTocqueville, and FDR’s Long New Deal, which analyzes seminal Great Depression-era policies from the perspective of public choice theory.

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Cruel Bedlam: Bankruptcies and the Break with Britain

America will celebrate the Semiquincentennial anniversary of its independence from Great Britain in 2026. The causes of that world-changing event were many and complexly intertwined, so new conjectures unsurprisingly continue to emerge from the archival mists. Because disputed taxes were objectively light, the current consensus stresses a narrative rooted in ideas to explain why many […]

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