Dr. Roman Rossfeld
Roman Rossfeld is an economic historian and research associate. His research focuses on the economic and business history of the 19th and 20th centuries, with a special emphasis on the cultural and intellectual history of the economy. He is currently working on the history of economic growth and criticism of growth (in Switzerland) in the 19th and 20th centuries.
Roman Rossfeld has authored numerous publications on the history of food and luxury goods, the social and economic history of World War I, the history of traveling salesmen and the origins of modern markets, as well as the history of economic growth and economic crises. His latest book, «More! Economic Growth and Criticism of Growth in Switzerland since 1945», published in 2025, examines not only how (steady) growth came to be a guiding principle in Switzerland during the postwar years. It also addresses the growing criticism of growth since the 1970s and examines the adaptations and transformations of this criticism up to the stagnation of the 1990s.
Before joining the SHSS in St. Gallen, Roman Rossfeld was a researcher and lecturer at the Center for Social and Economic History at the University of Zurich, the Institute for Economic and Social History at the University of Göttingen, and the Department of History at the University of Bern.
