Laurence Fontaine is a specialist on migrations, mountain societies, poverty and on the economic,
social and cultural dimensions of credit. A public intellectual, she has authored, among others, History
of Peddlers in Europe (Polity Press and Duke University Press, 1996); and The Moral Economy: Poverty,
Credit and Trust in Early Modern Europe (Cambridge University press, 2014).
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with the support of the Cultural Services of the French Embassy in the United States
Joined Center for History and Economics, Harvard University