1st Edition

An Economic History of Liberal Italy (Routledge Revivals) 1850-1918

By Gianni Toniolo Copyright 1990
200 Pages
by Routledge

200 Pages
by Routledge

200 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more

Foreword;  List of tables;  1. Growth of product  2. Demand  3. The financial superstructure  4. Production, productivity, and welfare  5. Before the Unification  6. Economic problems and the Unification  7. The ‘Age of the Right’  8. The contradictions of the 1880s  9. A decade of crisis: 1887-96  10. The ‘Age of Giolitti’  11. The War economy  12. The economic development of Liberation Italy: some interpretations;  Notes and references;  Index

Biography

Gianni Toniolo, Maria Rees