लेखक: Michael-W. Serruys

Giovanni Favero is Professor of Economic History at the Ca” Foscari University of Venice, Italy, in the Department of Management. In 2018-19 he was the Thomas K. Mc Craw Visiting Fellow in US Business History at Harvard Business School. He works on organisational history in a long term perspective. Michael-W. Serruys is a Marie Skłodowska Curie Action Fellow at the Université de Bretagne Occidentale in Brest, France. In recent years his main focus lay on 18th century Belgian economic, maritime and transport history. As a MSCA Fellow he now researches the societal effects of environmental crisis, like the shipworm epidemic in 18th century Western Europe. Miki Sugiura is Professor of Global Economic History at the Faculty of Economics of Hosei University, Japan. Currently (2018-2020) she is Visiting Professor of Global History and Culture at the University of Warwick. Her research interests include historyof distribution and trade organizations, urban formation and women’s property formation. She also has published recently multiple articles and books on circulations and recycling of textile products.