1st Edition

Observing Agriculture in Early Twentieth-Century Italy Agricultural economists and statistics

By Federico D'Onofrio Copyright 2016
206 Pages
by Routledge

206 Pages
by Routledge

206 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more

Contents

Acknowledgements

List of Acronyms

Main Investigations and Surveys

Dramatis Personae

List of Organizations

Chapter 1: Three Forms of Observation

Chapter 2: Agrarian Landscapes

Chapter 3: Packaging Agricultural Variety

Chapter 4: Measuring Stocks, Conjecturing Flows

Chapter 5: Stakeholder Statistics

Chapter 6: Observing Typicality

Chapter 7: Budget Studies

Chapter 8: Epilogue

Bibliography

Index

Biography

Federico D’Onofrio, Ph.D Utrecht University, has held post-doctoral fellowships at the Department of Political Science, Yale University, and the Paris School of Economics.