The paper aims to highlight the crucial role played by the manufacturing industry in thegrowth of the developed countries. This assumption is based, first of all, on the theoreticalcontributions of Petrus Verdoorn and Nicholas Kaldor, that, in the '50s and '60s, have identifiedlinks connecting...

The paper describes the economic scenario after the financial crisis focusing on Italian manufacturing sector. In particular, it shows the good results reached by this sector in the last two months in terms of occupation and sales and it provides some predictions for the next future. Then it...