Italian Abstract: Il possibile nesso tra crisi economiche e quello che Marx e Hilferding chiamavano "centralizzazione" del capitale è uno dei temi sollevati dalla "grande recessione". L'articolo esamina i principali studi dedicati a tale nesso, confrontando la letteratura economica marxista e...

This paper assess the freedom of capital movements between France and Italy in the late 19 century looking at the market for the most important Italian bond, the Rendita Italiana. Taking into account long time series of Rendita prices both in France and in Italy the paper looks at the...

Catholic Church’s usury restrictions and their effects on business life have long attracted scholars’ attention. Several essays reconstruct the evolution of usury doctrine and its relations with the diffusion of new contracts and financial techniques to enable the payment of interest. This...

Italian Abstract: In questo lavoro viene presentato l'Archivio Storico del Credito in Italia (ASCI) che raccoglie e armonizza i dati di stato patrimoniale di circa 2.600 aziende di credito operanti in Italia tra il 1890 e il 1973, per un totale di oltre 41.000 bilanci. La ricostruzione incorpora...

Italian Abstract: Quello degli intacchi e` un problema che ha riguardato la vita del Monte di Pieta` , ma non solo di quello scaligero, sin dai suoi esordi. Si tratta di illegalita` attinenti propriamente i servigi svolti dai ministri piu` direttamente coinvolti nella gestione del banco di...

the paper interprets the initial 50 years of the Kingdom of Italy in the light of external balance. It presents estimates of capital flows, discusses the problems connected to the balance of payments and to domestic equilibrium

The article responds to Daniele and Malanima’s harsh criticism (Perché il Sud è rimasto indietro? Il Mezzogiorno fra storia e pubblicistica, Rivista di Storia Economica, 2014, n. 1) of my last book (Perché il Sud è rimasto indietro, Il Mulino, 2013), about the reconstruction of regional...

Abstract (English) In recent years there have been major advances in our historical knowledge of regional disparities in Italy; as a consequence, the debate on the causes of the North-South divide (and thus, ultimately, on strategies and possibilities to overcome it) has also revived. By mainly...

Focusing on the urban context of Verona (a major city in the Venice Republic) during the XVIII century, the paper aim to clarify if, and in which measure, the cost of living of the employed population changed along the century. Instead of simply analyzing salaries and prices, the Author built a...

“Economic history” is at once the events of the past, and their subsequent reconstruction. Italy’s “traditional” North-South gap developed after Unification, as the South failed to match the industrial progress of the North; that regional failure seems tied to a broader, national...