# Gavin Wright

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{{short description|American economist}}
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'''Gavin Wright''' (born 1943) is an [economic historian](/source/Economic_history) and the [William Robertson Coe](/source/William_Robertson_Coe) Professor of [American](/source/Americans) economic history at [Stanford University](/source/Stanford_University). He received his [B.A.](/source/Bachelor_of_Arts) from [Swarthmore College](/source/Swarthmore_College) and his [Ph.D.](/source/Doctor_of_Philosophy) with distinction from [Yale University](/source/Yale_University).<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://gavin-wright.humsci.stanford.edu/|title=Home {{!}} Gavin Wright|website=gavin-wright.humsci.stanford.edu|access-date=2019-08-27}}</ref> He has taught at that institution, the [University of Michigan](/source/University_of_Michigan), the [University of California at Berkeley](/source/University_of_California_at_Berkeley), the [University of Cambridge](/source/University_of_Cambridge), and [Oxford University](/source/Oxford_University).

Wright has published nine books and dozens of scholarly articles. Most of his research has focused on the economics of the [U.S. Civil War](/source/American_Civil_War) and the [civil rights movement](/source/civil_rights_movement).

== Selected publications ==
*''Reckoning with Slavery''. Oxford, England: Oxford U. Press, 1976 (co-ed).
*''The Political Economy of the Cotton South: Households, Markets, and Wealth in the Nineteenth Century''. New York: W. W. Norton, 1978. {{ISBN|0-393-09038-8}}.
*''Technique, Spirit and Form in the Making of Modern Economies''. Bingley, England: JAI Press, 1984 (c-ed).
*''Old South, New South: Revolutions in the Southern Economy Since the Civil War''. New York: Basic Books, 1986. {{ISBN|0-8071-2098-7}}.
*''The Mosaic of Economic Growth''. Stanford U. Press, 1996 (co-ed). {{ISBN|0-804-72604-3}}.
*''Slavery and American Economic Development''. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2006. {{ISBN|0-8071-3183-0}}.
*''The Japanese Economy in Retrospect''. Hackensack, NJ: World Scientific, 2010 (co-ed).
*''Sharing the Prize: The Economics of the Civil Rights Revolution in the American South''.  Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2013.  {{ISBN|978-0-674-04933-8}}.

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== External links ==
* [https://archive.today/20121214230541/http://www-econ.stanford.edu/faculty/wright Stanford faculty bio]
* [SIEPR](/source/SIEPR) [https://siepr.stanford.edu/people/gavin-wright]

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