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Measuring Wellbeing - A History of Italian Living Standards (Hardcover)
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Measuring Wellbeing - A History of Italian Living Standards (Hardcover)
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Italy - born as one nation on March 17, 1861 - was a poor and
backward country in the most Southern part of Europe. Most Italians
lived a short and troubled life, with little prospect of giving
their children a better future. That was how it had been for
centuries in the Italian peninsula. In one and half centuries, the
Italians astonished us by turning Italy into a country where living
standards are among the highest in the world. The Dolce Vita found
its home in Italy. How did such a transformation come about? The
book provides an answer based on an impressive volume of
newly-constructed historical statistics, and does so aided by an
easilyt accessible and enjoyable narrative. In more than 20 years
of research, Giovanni Vecchi has gathered tens of thousands of
family accounts, so that the themes of economic inequality, poverty
and vulnerability can at last be placed at the centre of the book.
This history is written from the bottom up, starting with the
elementary data, those coming from the lives of individuals and
households. Measuring Wellbeing builds up the "macro" picture (the
history) from the "micro" data (the stories). The concept of
wellbeing is, by its very nature, multidimensional and must
therefore include the non-monetary aspects of life: nutrition,
health and education, but also less tangible elements such as
freedom or the possibility to exercise one's political rights. The
book deals with this polyhedral nature of wellbeing using a uniform
method. Great effort has been taken not to exercise the reader with
technical details, but tables and graphs have nevertheless been
included because they are decisive tools for readers to gain
insight and keep up their guard against the fallacy of what at
first sight may seem to be incontrovertible.
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