Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Robert E. Wright (b. 1969 in Rochester, N.Y.) is a business, economic, financial, and monetary historian who recently became the inaugural Rudy and Marilyn Nef Family Chair of Political Economy at Augustana College in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. He is also a research economist at the National Bureau of Economic Research, an editor of Pickering & Chatto of London''s financial history and perspectives in economic and social history series, and a guest curator for the newly revamped Museum of American Finance. After graduating from Fairport High School in 1987, Wright took degrees in History from Buffalo State College, where he was a member of the All-College Honors Program, and the State University of New York at Buffalo (Ph.D., 1997).