Daniel Dăianu is Professor of Economics at the National School of Political and Administrative Studies in Bucharest and a Member of the Romanian Academy. His publications include Emerging Europe and the Great Recession (2018); Which Way Goes Romanian Capitalism (2009); The Macroeconomics of EU Integration: The Case of Romania (2008); Transformation as A Real Process (1998); and Economic Vitality and Viability: A Dual Challenge for European Security (1996), among others.George Virgil Stoenescu is Professor of the History of Economic Thought at the Bucharest Academy of Economic Studies, Romania. His publications include La început a fost Carada [In the Beginning was Carada] (1995); Monetary Doctrine Issues in the Romanian Economic Thought during the Second Half of the 19th Century (1997); and The Splendours and Miseries of Economics (1996), among others.

"The papers presented in the volume will provide researchers concerned with issues of economic and monetary history and all those willing to grasp the remote and not so remote past with additional relevant knowledge about the economic facts of South East Europe." Mugur IsărescuGovernor of the National Bank of Romania"This volume continues the remarkable series of conference proceedings produced by the South-East European Monetary History Network. May this volume find the attention in the academic and central bank communities that it truly deserves."Doris Ritzberger-GrünwaldDirector of Economic Analysis and Research, Oesterreichische Nationalbank