Dieter Stiefel Professor for Social and Economic History at Vienna University, Austria. Executiv Director of the Vienna Schumpeter Society and the Schumpeter Program Harvard/Austria. Research Fellowships at Cambridge University/England, Harvard University and UC Berkeley. Author of Books on European Economic History, the Great Depression, Business and Banking History, Nationalisation and Privatisation, Histroy of Bankruptcy, Marshall Plan, Denazification and Holocaust Era Assets.
