The Economic History Of Italy 1860 1990

Author : Vera Zamagni
Publisher : Clarendon Press
ISBN 13 : 0191590223
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Economic History of Italy 1860-1990 written by Vera Zamagni and published by Clarendon Press. This book was released on 1993-10-28 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 413 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Economic History of Italy, 1860-1990 written by Vera Negri Zamagni and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Vera Zamagni
Publisher : World Economies
ISBN 13 : 9781911116783
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Italian Economy written by Vera Zamagni and published by World Economies. This book was released on 2018 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Gianni Toniolo
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317569547
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Economic History of Liberal Italy (Routledge Revivals) written by Gianni Toniolo and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-10-14 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Jon S. Cohen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521666923
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Growth of the Italian Economy, 1820-1960 written by Jon S. Cohen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2001-09-06 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brief, up-to-date account of Italy's transformation from an agrarian state to an industrial powerhouse.

Author : Gino Luzzatto
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136592318
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Economic History of Italy written by Gino Luzzatto and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Giovanni Federico
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 744 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Economic Development of Italy Since 1870 written by Giovanni Federico and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 744 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Shepard Bancroft Clough
Publisher : New York : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Economic History of Modern Italy written by Shepard Bancroft Clough and published by New York : Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1964 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Gianni Toniolo
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199936706
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of the Italian Economy Since Unification written by Gianni Toniolo and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-01-04 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Vera Zamagni
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781911116387
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book An Economic History of Europe Since 1700 written by Vera Zamagni and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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."