Guide to U.S. Economic Policy

Robert E. Wright is the Nef Family Chair of Political Economy and founding director of the Thomas Willing Institute for the Study of Financial Markets, Institutions, and Regulations at Augustana College in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Previously, Dr. Wright taught at New York University’s Stern School of Business, the University of Virginia, Temple University, and elsewhere. He teaches courses on the history of capitalism, Native American economic history, and HBO’s The Wire, among other topics.He is the author or co-author of fifteen books, including Wealth of Nations Rediscovered (2002); First Wall Street (2005);Financial Founding Fathers (2006); One Nation Under Debt (2008); Fubarnomics (2010); and Corporation Nation (2014). He is currently working on books about entrepreneurship in South Dakota and America’s fifty largest bank holding companies.Dr. Wright is a board member of Historians Against Slavery, an NGO dedicated to using historical insights to help reduce the number of coerced laborers worldwide. He is also the editor of Cambridge University Press’s series Slavery Since Emancipation and was the founding editor of Pickering and Chatto’s Financial History monograph series. He is a member of the editorial board of Financial History, the magazine of the Museum of American Finance in New York. Thomas W. Zeiler is professor of history and director of the Program on International Affairs at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Dr. Zeiler is also the former chair of the Department of History. Having conducted extensive research on the international economy, U.S. foreign economic policy, and globalization, he has published Free Trade, Free World: America and the Advent of GATT (1998); Globalization and the American Century (2003), with co-editor Alfred Eckes; and Guide to U.S. Foreign Policy: A Diplomatic History (2012), with co-editor Robert J. McMahon.Dr. Zeiler is currently doing research on free markets, free trade, and globalization. He has held Fulbright lecture awards to Buenos Aires, Argentina, and Tokyo, Japan. He served as the president of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR) in 2012 and, from 2010 to 2014, as editor of Diplomatic History, the journal of record in the field of U.S. foreign relations. He also serves on the Historical Advisory Committee on Documentation at the U.S. Department of State.

"...This substantial work offers compelling interdisciplinary analyses and is worth a close reading. Summing Up: Recommended. Advanced students through researchers/faculty; general readers; economists and government professionals."