Wright's writings include a book on the role the real estate mortgage crisis of the 1760s played in the American Revolution.[7]
Wright is a board member of Historians Against Slavery, an NGO.[8] He edits its books series with Cambridge University Press,[9] "Slaveries Since Emancipation,"[10] and serves on HAS's public speakers bureau.[11] He is also associated with the Museum of American Finance.[12]
Wright, Robert E. (2001). Origins of commercial banking in America, 1750-1800. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN9780742520875.
Wright, Robert E. (2002). Hamilton unbound finance and the creation of the American Republic. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press. ISBN9780275978167.
Wright, Robert E. (2010). Bailouts: public money, private profit. New York: Columbia University Press. ISBN9780231521734.
Wright, Robert E. (2014). Corporation nation. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. ISBN9780812245646.
Wright, Robert E.; Sylla, Richard E. (2015). Genealogy of American finance. New York: Columbia University Press. ISBN9780231170260.
Wright, Robert E. (2017). Poverty of slavery: How unfree labor pollutes the economy. Palgrave Macmillan ISBN978-3-319-48968-1.
Book chapters
Wright, Robert E. (2012). "Capitalism in Early America: Rise of the Corporation Nation." In Gary Kornblith and Michael Zakim, eds., Capitalism Takes Command: The Social Transformation of Nineteenth Century America. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. ISBN9780226451107.
Journal articles
Wright, Robert E.; Kingston, Christopher. (2010) "The Deadliest of Games: The Institution of Dueling," Southern Economic Journal 76, 4:1094-1106.