Central Asia and the Silk Road, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2017 Economic Rise and Decline over Several Millennia Studies in Economic History Series
Auteur : Barisitz Stephan
Stephan Barisitz is Senior Economist in the Foreign Research Division of the Austrian Central Bank. He joined the bank in Dec 1998 and focuses on country- research and monitoring of Russia, Ukraine, CIS, South Eastern Europe, as well as on banking and financial sector analysis. In 2008, Stephan passed his habilitation exam in economic history at the Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU Wien). His habilitation thesis deals with banking transformation in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union since the 1980s. From 2009 to 2013 he was lecturer at the Institute for Economic and Social History and has been carrying out research on the economic history of Central Asia and the Silk Road. Before coming back to Vienna in 1998, Stephan worked for three years as an economist at the OECD in Paris, where, together with a colleague, has was in charge of the Russia-CIS-Bulgaria Desk of the OECD Economics Department. Before that he was from 1992 to 1995 with the Austrian Institute for East and South-East European Studies (OSI), Vienna, responsible for economic research and editing of Institute publications. Stephan started out his career as an economist at the Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies (wiiw) in 1986. Stephan had studied economics at the University of Innsbruck, Austria, and, after a research stay at Carleton University, Ottawa, passed his doctorate the same year.
Offers a comprehensive overview of the pre-modern economic history of Central Asia and the Silk Road
Analyzes the economic ups and downs of prosperity in Central Asia
Provides numerous detailed historico-economic maps of Central Asia and the Silk Road
Date de parution : 05-2017
Ouvrage de 287 p.
21x27.9 cm
Date de parution : 07-2018
Ouvrage de 287 p.
21x27.9 cm