作者: Monika Poettinger

Marcella Frangipane is a Full Professor of Prehistory and Protohistory of the Near and Middle East at the Sapienza University of Rome, Italy. She has participated in field research in Mexico, Italy, Egypt and Turkey, becoming the director of the Italian Archaeological Expedition in Eastern Anatolia. She is a Foreign Associate Member of the National Academy of Sciences (USA), and a Corresponding Member of both the German Archaeological Institute in Berlin and the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Rome., She has received various awards for her research at Arslantepe.  Monika Poettinger teaches economic history and history of economic thought at Bocconi University and the University of Florence, Italy. Her research focuses on the impact of foreign entrepreneurship on the industrialization process, the functioning of international merchant networks, liberal economic thought and the heterodox economics of Otto Neurath and Amintore Fanfani. In addition, she has organized international conferences and seminars and published in journals and collected volumes.  Bertram Schefold is a Senior Professor at the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Goethe University in Frankfurt, Germany. Currently serving as Honorary President of the European Society for the History of Economic Thought, he has published more than 40 books and 250 articles on economic theory, history of economic thought, energy policy and general economic policy. He edited the series Klassiker der Nationalökonomie.