The Handbook of Historical Economics - Grand Format

Alberto Bisin is Professor of Economics at New York University and an elected fellow of the Econometric Society and of the Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory. He is also a fellow of the NBER, the CEPR, and CESS at NYU. He is Associate Editor of the Journal of Comparative Economics and has served as Associate Editor for the Journal of Economic Theory, Economic Theory, and Research in Economics.
Bisin's main contributions are in the fields of Social Economics, Financial Economics, and Behavioral Economics. He has edited, with Jess Benhabib and Matthew Jackson, the Handbook of Social Economics in these same series. Giovanni Federico is Professor of Economic History, New York University Abu Dhabi, after having taught at the European University Institute and at the University of Pisa. He was Editor of the European Review of Economic History and is currently Editor of the Economic History Review.
He has published An Economic History of the Silk Industry 1800-1938 (Cambridge 1997), The Economic Development of Italy, with Jon Cohen (Cambridge 2000), and Feeding the World (Princeton 2005), and has written extensively on world trade, globalization, and European market integration, as well as on many issues in Italian economic history.