| Old South, new South: Revolutions in the southern economy since the Civil War G Wright Basic Books, 1986 | 1513 | 1986 |
| Historical statistics of the United States: millennial edition SB Carter, SS Gartner, MR Haines, AL Olmstead, R Sutch, G Wright Cambridge University Press, 2006 | 1070 | 2006 |
| The rise and fall of American technological leadership: the postwar era in historical perspective RR Nelson, G Wright journal of Economic Literature 30 (4), 1931-1964, 1992 | 940 | 1992 |
| The origins of American industrial success, 1879-1940 G Wright The American Economic Review, 651-668, 1990 | 871 | 1990 |
| The political economy of the cotton South: households, markets, and wealth in the nineteenth century G Wright WW Norton, 1978 | 773 | 1978 |
| The political economy of New Deal spending: An econometric analysis G Wright The Review of Economics and Statistics, 30-38, 1974 | 637 | 1974 |
| Why economies slow: the myth of the resource curse G Wright, J Czelusta Challenge 47 (2), 6-38, 2004 | 487 | 2004 |
| Increasing returns and the genesis of American resource abundance AP David, G Wright Industrial and Corporate Change 6 (2), 203-245, 1997 | 463 | 1997 |
| General Purpose Technologies and Surges in Productivity: Historical Reflections on the Future of the ICT Revolution. P David, G Wright Nuffield College (University of Oxford), 1999 | 378 | 1999 |
| Slavery and American economic development G Wright LSU press, 2006 | 358 | 2006 |
| Resource-based growth past and present G Wright, J Czelusta Natural resources: Neither curse nor destiny 185, 2007 | 251 | 2007 |
| Sharing the prize G Wright Harvard University Press, 2013 | 241 | 2013 |
| Towards a more historical approach to technological change G Wright The Economic Journal 107 (444), 1560-1566, 1997 | 185 | 1997 |
| The Political Economy of the Cotton South: Households G Wright Markets, and Wealth in the Nineteenth Century (New York, 1978) 26, 1978 | 165 | 1978 |
| Order without law? Property rights during the California gold rush K Clay, G Wright Explorations in Economic History 42 (2), 155-183, 2005 | 159 | 2005 |
| Mineral resources and economic development G Wright, J Czelusta Conference on Sector Reform in Latin America, Stanford Center for …, 2003 | 152 | 2003 |
| Cotton, corn and risk in the nineteenth century G Wright, H Kunreuther The Journal of Economic History 35 (3), 526-551, 1975 | 146 | 1975 |
| Debt, investment, slaves: credit relations in East Feliciana Parish, Louisiana, 1825-1885 RH Kilbourne, G Wright University of Alabama Press, 2014 | 125 | 2014 |
| The mosaic of economic growth R Landau, T Taylor, G Wright Stanford university press, 1996 | 122 | 1996 |
| The economic revolution in the American South G Wright Journal of Economic Perspectives 1 (1), 161-178, 1987 | 119 | 1987 |
