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. Wright is a board member of Historians Against Slavery, an
NGO. 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 Dr. Farley
Grubb, an economist at the
University of Delaware, over the nature of colonial and early U.S.
money and monetary systems. ==Selected bibliography==