There was never a greater advocate of the reasons for Italian unity and of the cause of Southern Italy, the Mezzogiorno, than Giustino Fortunato. His ideals and his political battle hold a decisive place in the historical record and reflections to which we are bound. Harking back to the...

This article deal with the dualistic nature of the Italy System and its evolution from the 1950s to the present day, arguing that it went through a prolonged stage as essential leverage for the economy as a whole to achieve rapid development, and that as from the mid-1970s it progressively...