professor at the EHESS (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales) and a senior researcher at the CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifiques)
Alessandro Stanziani is a professor at the EHESS (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales) and a senior researcher at the CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifiques), Paris. He is the author of fourteen monographs, ten edited volumes, and more than one hundred articles. His books include Rules of Exchange: French Capitalism in Comparative Perspective; Eighteenth to Early Twentieth Centuries (Cambridge University Press, 2012) and Bâtisseurs d’empires. Russie, Chine et Inde à la croisée des mondes (Liber, 2012).