1st Edition
Urbanization without Economic Growth in Pre-Industrial Italy Rome’s Long Shadow
List of figures and maps
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. A Critical Review of Theories of Urbanisation in Long-Run Economic Development
2. The Roman Urban Inheritance
3. A City-State Logic: Genoa's Regional Dominion (12th–19th century)
4. Urbanization, institutions, and structural constraints in Early Modern Tuscany (16th–17th centuries)
Conclusion
Index
Biography
Luigi Oddo earned his Ph.D. in Economics and Political Economy in 2022. Presently, he is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. His research lies at the intersection of economic development and economic history, with a particular focus on urbanization, institutions, and environmental factors as structural determinants of long-term economic development in the pre-industrial world. His work has been published in leading international journals such as Explorations in Economic History, European Review of Economic History, and Rural History.
