Haris Kitsikopoulos

<p class="ydp81a1022dyiv3398272605msonormal"><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Haris Kitsikopoulos</strong> is a former Clinical Professor at the Economics Department of New York University, USA, who is currently retired. His research explores British economic history from the Middle Ages to the Industrial Revolution, focusing on how institutions shaped technological innovation and growth. He edited a collection of essays on Agrarian Change and Crisis in Europe, 1200&ndash;1500 and authored two books on British steam engines based on research at the Smithsonian Institution. His work has appeared in leading journals, including the Journal of Economic History and the Economic History Review. A former visiting scholar at the University of Tokyo, he has held fellowships from the NEH and Smithsonian and received the Henry Allen Moe Prize from the American Philosophical Society.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Joshua L. Rosenbloom</strong> is a Professor of Economics at Iowa State University, USA, and a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. He is an elected fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Economic History Association, and the Cliometrics Association. He was&nbsp;chair of Iowa State&rsquo;s Economics Department from 2015 to 2025. Prior to&nbsp;coming to Iowa State, he was&nbsp;on the faculty&nbsp;at the University of Kansas and directed the NSF&rsquo;s Science and Innovation Policy Program. He is the author of&nbsp;Looking for Work, Searching for Workers: Labor Markets during American Industrialization and co-editor of&nbsp;two volumes of essays in economic history.</p>
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