Virginia-Anastasia Fournari is a researcher at the Department of Economics, University of Thessaly. She specializes in economic history, economic sociology, public finance history, and the evolution of economic ideas. She holds a PhD from Panteion University and her academic background includes postgraduate studies in sociology, international political economy, and applied statistics. She has held visiting fellowships at the American Institute for Economic Research (USA) and the Vinson Center at the University of Buckingham (UK). Her research explores the intersections of taxation, state formation, and banking history, with a particular focus on Greece’s fiscal development in the 19th and 20th centuries.