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Observing Agriculture in Early Twentieth-Century Italy - Agricultural economists and statistics (Paperback)
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Observing Agriculture in Early Twentieth-Century Italy - Agricultural economists and statistics (Paperback)
Series: Rural Worlds
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Agricultural Economists in Early Twentieth-Century Italy describes
how Italian agricultural economists collected information about the
economy of Italy, between the Giolittian and the Fascist era. The
book carefully describes three main forms of economic observation:
enquiries, statistics, and farm surveys. For each of these forms of
observation, the main participants to the investigation are
discussed with their respective agendas, alongside the purposes of
the investigation, and its practical constraints. This work
introduces the concept of "stakeholder statistics", and stresses
the two-way relation between the observer and the observed in the
co-production of observational knowledge. Practices of observation
developed together with agricultural economics as a discipline and
a profession. The study of forms of investigation therefore shed
light on the constitution of a coherent and self-conscious group of
agricultural economists in Italy, and the scientific and
methodological alliances they forged with agricultural economists
elsewhere in Europe. Thanks to ambitious research projects, Ghino
Valenti in the Giolittian period, and Arrigo Serpieri, after the
First World War, led the transformation of Italian agricultural
economists from agents of estate owners, to social and economic
experts in the service of the Italian state. The group of
agricultural economists who gathered around Serpieri played an
important role in supplying the ideology of the agricultural elites
with economic content, especially after the First World War, along
lines that resemble the development of agrarian ideologies in other
countries of Central Europe. This work discusses how observation
entered the political debate on agricultural policies of the
Fascist regime, namely the so-called Ruralismo.
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