Ancient Economies in Comparative Perspective Material Life, Institutions and Economic Thought

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.