Rolf Stein

Biographic Data

ID5141289
NAMERolf Stein
GIVEN NAMESRolf
FAMILY NAMEStein
SIGNATURESTEIN R
AFFILIATIONS.
ORCID0000-0002-6870-3250
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS8
TOTAL CITATIONS6
WORKS AS AUTHOR8
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1939
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2010
H-INDEX1

  • Rolf Stein's Tibetica Antiqua

    Rolf Stein, Rolf A Stein et al.BOOKRolf Stein's Tibetica antiqua2010

    Tibetica antiqua represents the seminal work on Tibetan religious history by one of the foremost Tibetologists of the twentieth century. Herein, Stein discusses the cultural and religious interactions among Tibet, India, and China which resulted in what we now consider "Tibetan Buddhism" from the point of view of our earliest sources, the Dunhuang manuscripts. Stein first discusses the basic tool of religious language, and the extent to which tra…

  • Economic Specialisation in Metropolitan Areas Revisited

    Open AccessRolf SteinARTICLEUrban Studies2003References: 4

    To characterise economic activities in which metropolitan areas specialise, recourse is commonly taken to categories like producer or (knowledge-intensive) business services, derived from efforts to differentiate the notoriously heterogeneous service sector. An alternative approach to categorising economic activities is explored in this paper, building on the notion of transactional activities theoretically founded in 'new institutional economics…

  • Producer Services, Transaction Activities, and Cities

    Rolf SteinARTICLEEuropean Planning Studies2002

    Applying insights from 'new institutional economics' to classify economic activities or occupations avoids some problems for which conventional classifications of services and particularly producer services have long been criticized. In institutionalist thinking the mixture of organizational forms such as market, hierarchy or network in an economy is mainly determined by transaction costs, which can in turn be correlated to specific 'transaction …

  • Studenten in den Neunzigern

    Open AccessRolf SteinBOOKStudenten in Den Neunzigern : Die…1999

  • The World in Miniature

    Craig Clunas, Rolf Stein et al.ARTICLEJournal of the Economic and…1992

  • The World in Miniature. Container Gardens and Dwellings in Far Eastern Religious Thought

    Joseph P Mcdermott, Rolf Stein et al.ARTICLEGarden History1991

    List of figures Foreword Edward H. Schafer Author's preface to the French edition Part I. Miniature gardens in the Far East: Part II. Dwelling Places, Their Physical Details: Part III. The World and Architecture in religious Thought: Notes Bibliography of secondary sources Selected character list Index

  • Trente-Trois Fiches de Divination Tibetaines

    Rolf SteinARTICLEHarvard Journal of Asiatic Studies1939Cited by: 1

  • Leao-Tche

    Rolf SteinARTICLET oung Pao1939Cited by: 5

    LEAO-TCHE TRADUIT ET ANNOTÉ PAR ROLF STEIN AVANT-PROPOS Des K'i-fan ($Q ff), peuple de race mongole ou tongouse qui a régné sur la Mandchourie, la Mongolie Interieure et une partie de la Chine du Nord sous le nom de la dynastie Leao depuis le dixieme jusqu'au d6but du douzième siecle, nous con- naissons sommairement 1'histoire politique et assez bien la g6ographie. J'ai cru utile de traduire le Leao-Tche, parce qu'il nous renseigne avant tout sur…