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The Economic History of Italy 1860-1990 (Hardcover)
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The Economic History of Italy 1860-1990 (Hardcover)
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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.
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