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Historical studies of a lot of things in life tend to help us understand better how to deal with the present and even the future with a sense of foresight involved. This is valid for almost any subject in the world. Be it science, sociology, psychology, medicine or more pertinently economics, the importance of historical documentation is of immense importance. It is here that we come across certain names that indulge most prominently in the task of historical documentation and analyses. There are so many names associated with each subject. In the case of a subject such as economics, the name that comes to mind is Robert E WRight.

Robert E WRight is a business and economic historian as well as a research economist associated with the National Bureau of Economic Research. He is also the editor of Financial History, a magazine that is supported by the Museum of American Finance. He is also an editor of Pickering and Chatto, a London based paper of financial history and perspectives. In addition to all of this he is also a director at Thomas Willing Institute for the study of Financial Markets, Institutions and Regulation.

In terms of education, Robert E WRight has very impressive curriculum vitae with his formal primary education being concluded at Fairport High School and his college degrees coming from Buffalo State College where he completed a degree course in history and the University of Buffalo from which he holds a philosopher’s degree. Some of his most famous works include an expose of the problems of the of the construction industry in the United States with regards to the contractual issues related to it, a critique of U.S. public policy based programs that are associated with banking, health care, higher education and bailouts. Apart from all of this he has authored a number of books and has co-authored some of them as well with most of them being on the political and the related financial history of the early years of the United States of America.

Robert E WRight’s latest book is coauthored with Simon Constable, a reporter with the Wall Street Journal and is called “The Wall Street Journal’s Guide to the 50 Economic Indicators That Really Matter”. The initial reviews for the book have been good and Robert’s work continues to be appreciated both as a historian and as an author who deals with economy in general.

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