The Economic History Of Italy 1860 1990

Author : Vera Zamagni
Publisher : Clarendon Press
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1993-10-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780191590221

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The Economic History of Italy 1860-1990 by Vera Zamagni Pdf

This book gives a full account of the economic and social history of Italy since unification (1860), with an introduction covering the previous period since the Middle Ages. The Economic History of Italy represents a scholarly and authoritative account of Italy's progress from a rural economy to an industrialized nation. The book makes a broad division of the period into three parts: the take-off (1860-1913), the consolidation in the midst of two wars and a world depression (1914-47), and the great expansion (1948-1990). Professor Zamagni traces the growth of industrialization, and argues that despite several advanced areas Italy only became an industrialized nation after the Second World War, and that during the 1980s the South was still clearly behind the rest of the country. Zamagni analyses data both from a macroeconomic position, in looking at the growth of the finance sector, or the role of the State, and from a microeconomic position when she draws conclusions from the changing population structure, or from the actions of individual businesses. Professor Zamagni reveals that even though the population more than doubled during this time the level of national income rose 19-fold, to move Italy from a peripheral status in Europe to a central position as a prosperous country. A central theme of the book is Professor Zamagni's argument that the Italian economy has been successful not by any great individuality of its own but by being flexible enough to incorporate the successes of other countries: Japan's integrated business network, for example, or Germany's financial structure. She places the industrialization of Italy in the international context by comparing Italy's GDP and other measures of prosperity at different times to the USA, Japan, the UK, France, and Germany. The book is based on original field-work by the author, and the many detailed but small-scale studies existing in Italian. Quantitative trends are described in more than 70 tables of data, while the book provides appendices containing chronologies of main events in various sectors and biographies.

Author : Vera Negri Zamagni
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:491964382

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The Economic History of Italy, 1860-1990 by Vera Negri Zamagni Pdf

Author : Vera Zamagni
Publisher : World Economies
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Economic history
ISBN : 1911116789

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The Italian Economy by Vera Zamagni Pdf

The legacies of two great civilizations--the Roman Empire and Renaissance city-states--are still apparent in today's Italian economy in its internationalization, strong regional cultures, tourism, and arts industries. Less appreciated is the country's status as continental Europe's second-largest industrial power, notwithstanding the disproportionate significance of SMEs in Italy. Vera Zamagni's survey of the Italian economy and its modern history outlines its unique shape and structure and how human factors explain its strengths in social networks, "niche capitalism," and well-being indicators, as well as its weaknesses reflected in regional imbalances, political instability, and recently in banking. Focusing on economic developments since 1945, Zamagni explains how the contemporary economy is the result of the contours of this longer history, of the country's geography--low on natural resources but blessed with good weather and shipping opportunities--and more recent factors such as the country's membership in the EU and the changing profile of Italian demography and the country's surprisingly measured response to the challenges of migration. Drawing upon both conventional and heterodox approaches, the book concludes with an assessment of the prospects for the Italian economy. The book provides a concise overview of value for students in politics, political economy, history, and economics and for professionals looking to understand the nature of recent Italian economic performance.

Author : Jon S. Cohen,Giovanni Federico
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2001-09-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521666929

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The Growth of the Italian Economy, 1820-1960 by Jon S. Cohen,Giovanni Federico Pdf

A brief, up-to-date account of Italy's transformation from an agrarian state to an industrial powerhouse.

Author : Gianni Toniolo
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2014-10-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317569541

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An Economic History of Liberal Italy (Routledge Revivals) by Gianni Toniolo Pdf

This book, first published in 1990, examines Italy’s economic history from its Unification in 1850 to the end of the First World War. Particular attention is paid to the extent to which Italy exhibits the features of Kaznets’s model of ‘modern economic growth’. An Economic History of Liberal Italy begins with a quantitative assessment of Italy’s long-term growth in this period. All of the main relevant variables – including production, consumption, investment, foreign trade, government spending, and welfare – are discussed. The book proceeds through a chronological account of the developments of the economy during this period, and concludes with a critical survey of the relevant historiography. Throughout the book emphasis is given to structural changes, to developments in the main industries, to the relations between different sectors of the economy, and to economic policies. This book is ideal for those studying economics of Italian history.

Author : Giovanni Federico
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 744 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105009666814

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The Economic Development of Italy Since 1870 by Giovanni Federico Pdf

This comprehensive volume brings together 20 articles on Italy's economic development since 1870 (written 1961-1992), some of which are published in English for the first time. The introduction provides the non-Italian reader with a general overview of the background to the essays collected. The work contains chapters on the development process, agriculture, industrialization, technical progress, industrial policy, the macroeconomic framework and the issue of geographical and economic dualism. Contributors include: D. Biggazzi, L. Cafagna, S. Fenoaltea, A. Gerschenkron, P. O'Brien, F. Spinelli, V. Zamagni.

Author : Gino Luzzatto
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136592317

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An Economic History of Italy by Gino Luzzatto Pdf

This book is the first to provide English readers with a brief and comprehensive survey of economic life in Italy during the period of its greatest splendour: the Middle Ages and Renaissance. The wealth of Renaissance Italy was the product of centuries of growth, and the great Renaissance cities, Venice, Milan and Florence, were first and foremost centres of international trade, which taught the rest of Europe the rudiments of modern business techniques. In a masterly synthesis, based upon a lifetime of study and research, Professor Gino Luzzatto, the greatest of living Italian historians, describes the main changes in Italian economic conditions from the end of the Roman Empire, when Italy ceased to be the centre of a European state, to the end of the Middle Ages when Italy lost the leadership of European trade and banking. The narrative chapters, which deal with barbarian Italy, feudal Italy and Italy in the age of the communes, are followed by a valuable analysis of medieval agriculture, industry, commerce and finance, in her principal Italian states. The range of discussion is wide and offers an excellent introduction to the economic history not only of Italy but of the whole Mediterranean region. This classic text was first published in 1961.

Author : Shepard Bancroft Clough
Publisher : New York : Columbia University Press
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:20500080982

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The Economic History of Modern Italy by Shepard Bancroft Clough Pdf

An economic history of Italy from Italian unification to reconstruction after World War II. Includes analysis of the effects of agriculture, banking, commerce, and emigration on the economy of the country. .

Author : Riccardo Faucci
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2014-04-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317704164

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A History of Italian Economic Thought by Riccardo Faucci Pdf

This book provides the non-Italian scholar with an extensive picture of the development of Italian economics, from the Sixteenth century to the present. The thread of the narrative is the dialectics between economic theory and political action, where the former attempts to enlighten the latter, but at the same time receives from politics the main stimulus to enlarge its field of reflection. This is particularly clear during the Enlightenment. Inside, this book insists on stressing that Galiani, Verri, and Beccaria were economists quite sensitive to practical issues, but who also were willing to attain generally valid conclusions. In this sense, "pure economics" was never performed in Italy. Even Pareto used economics (and sociology) in order to interpret and possibly steer the course of political action. Within this book it illustrates the Restoration period (1815-48). There was a slowdown of the economists' engagement, due to an adverse political situation, that prompted the economists to prefer less dangerous subjects, such as the relationship between economics, morals, and law (the main interpreter of this attitude was Romagnosi). After 1848, however, in parallel with the Risorgimento cultural climate, a new vision of the economists' task was eventually manifested. Between economics and political Liberalism a sort of alliance was established, whose prophet was F. Ferrara. While the Historical school of economics of German origin played a minor role, Pure Economics (1890-1940 approx.) had a considerable success, as regards both economic equilibrium and the theory of public finance. Consequently, the introduction of Keynes's ideas was rather troubled. Instead, Hayek had an immediate success. This book concludes with a chapter devoted to the intense relationships between economic theories, economic programmes and political action after 1945. Here, the Sraffa debate played an important role in stimulating Italian economists to a reflection on the patterns of Italian economy and the possibilities of transforming Italy's economic and social structure.

Author : Paolo Malanima
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2022-05-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000585278

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The Economy of Renaissance Italy by Paolo Malanima Pdf

Drawing on a wide range of literature and adopting a macroeconomic approach, this book provides a comprehensive overview of the Italian economy during the Renaissance, focusing on the period between 1348, the year of the Black Death, and 1630. The Italian Renaissance played a crucial role in the formation of the modern world, with developments in culture, art, politics, philosophy, and science sitting alongside, and overlapping with, significant changes in production, forms of organization, trades, finance, agriculture, and population. Yet, it is usually argued that splendour in culture coexisted with economic depression and that the modernity of Renaissance culture coincided with an epoch of epidemics, famines, economic crisis, poverty, and destitution. This book examines both faces of the Italian economy during the Renaissance, showing that capital per worker was plentiful and productive capacity and incomes were relatively high. The endemic presence of the plague, curbing population growth, played an important role in this. It is also shown that the organization of production in industry and finance, consumerism, human capital, and mercantile rationality were the forerunners of modern-day capitalism. This book is an invaluable resource for scholars and students of the Renaissance and Italian economic history.

Author : Gianni Toniolo
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2013-01-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780199936700

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The Oxford Handbook of the Italian Economy Since Unification by Gianni Toniolo Pdf

This Oxford Handbook provides a fresh overall view and interpretation of the modern economic growth of one of the largest European countries, whose economic history is less known internationally than that of other comparably large and successful economies. It will provide, for the first time, a comprehensive, quantitative "new economic history" of Italy. The handbook offers an interpretation of the main successes and failures of the Italian economy at a macro level, the research--conducted by a large international team of scholars --contains entirely new quantitative results and interpretations, spanning the entire 150-year period since the unification of Italy, on a large number of issues. By providing a comprehensive view of the successes and failures of Italian firms, workers, and policy makers in responding to the challenges of the international business cycle, the book crucially shapes relevant questions on the reasons for the current unsatisfactory response of the Italian economy to the ongoing "second globalization." Most chapters of the handbook are co-authored by both an Italian and a foreign scholar.

Author : George Herbert Hildebrand
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0674364503

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Growth and Structure in the Economy of Modern Italy by George Herbert Hildebrand Pdf

Study of postwar economic growth and economic structure of Italy - comprises 3 parts on (1) economic development (monetary policy, price stabilisation, incomes, labour productivity, etc.), (2) human resources and labour force (population growth, migration, the occupational structure, unemployment, underemployment, wage policy, social policy, wages, etc.), and (3) the dual character of the economy and industrialization. Statistical tables, bibliography and references.

Author : Pino Aprile
Publisher : Via Folios
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 1599540312

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Terroni by Pino Aprile Pdf

In a passionate and polemical manner, Pino Aprile's "Terroni" examines the effect that the unification of Italy has had on Southern Italy and analyzes what some of the ramifications are today. A bestseller in Italy, the book sold more than 200,000 copies in its first year of print.

Author : Gino 1878-1964 Luzzatto
Publisher : Hassell Street Press
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2021-09-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1013359704

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An Economic History of Italy; From the Fall of the Roman Empire to the Beginning of the Sixteenth Century by Gino 1878-1964 Luzzatto Pdf

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Vera Zamagni
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Economic history
ISBN : 191111638X

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An Economic History of Europe Since 1700 by Vera Zamagni Pdf

Présentation de l'éditeur : "Vera Zamagni charts the remarkable story of European economic growth from the birth of industrialization through to the present day. Setting European events within the wider context of world economic progress and alongside developments in Asia, Eastern Europe and the United States, she provides an up-to-date and authoritative survey suitable for course use. The book begins with an outline of the economic landscape of the late Middle Ages before exploring the process of European industrialization, including how the British model was replicated across Europe, and why Britain was unable to maintain its position relative to other economies, in particular the United States. The advent of global finance is examined and the economic impact of world war and revolution is assessed. European reconstruction and integration is analysed alongside the decline of Russia and the growth of the Asian economies. The book ends with an assessment of the impact of the global crash of 2008 and the subsequent crisis of the Eurozone. Throughout her analysis, Zamagni shows how the social and economic institutions and values of European civilization catalyzed economic progress. That these same structures are now threatened makes this history particularly timely."