Bøker av Robert E. Wright

Shareholder activist Wilma Soss rocketed to fame in the 1950s fighting for the rights of the individual investor. But over the years, her legacy was almost forgotten.    Based on archival documents, this is the true story of how a disparate group of activist investors—from a PR star to a Holocaust survivor—found each other and became the advocates Fortune 500 management loved to hate.   Soss and her band of activists, including the incomparable Evelyn Y. Davis, leveraged the media to promote the rights of small shareholders. The idea was simple: buy one share of stock to gain access to shareholder meetings and remind management whom they really serve.     These “corporate gadflies” were determined to speak their minds, even if it meant bringing their own megaphones or being dragged out of public meetings. But their message was undeniable, and ultimately changed corporate America for the better. Increased opportunities in the workplace, improved shareholder voting rights and greater corporate transparency were just some of the reforms Wilma Soss and her Federation kicked off in the post-war era.    If you’re looking for the intellectual heritage of 2021’s WallStreetBets phenomenon or the reason Fearless Girl stands as a symbol of American optimism today, look no further than the life, times and efforts of the fearless shareholder activist, Wilma Soss.

Drawing on legal and economic history, Robert E. Wright traces the development of corporate institutions in America, connecting today's financial failures to weakened internal corporate regulation.

A history of The Guardian Life Insurance company.

This ground-breaking book adds an economic angle to a traditionally moral argument, demonstrating that slavery has never promoted economic growth or development, neither today nor in the past.

A lively history of one of America's oldest publishing houses, published in conjunction with Wiley's bicentennial Founded in New York City when Thomas Jefferson was president, Wiley has been a significant player in the publishing industry for two centuries.

Recounts the of Chestnut Street and its forgotten role in the birth of American finance. It reveals how Philadelphia played a role in the financing of the American Revolution. This book will appeal to those interested in the history of the United States and the origins of its unrivaled economy.

This text uses modern financial theories to look at old problems in early American republic historiography from new perspectives. Concepts such as information asymmetry, portfolio choice and principal-agent dilemmas open up scholarly vistas.

Robert Wright argues that the ultimate causes of American economic development and transformation into a modern society can be reduced to the causes of American commercial banking. Wright analyzes why American banking arose when, and with the particular characteristics, it did.