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In Search for Another "Fish Story": Stefano Fenoaltea's Last (Unfinished) Revolution

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  • Alberto Baffigi

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Stefano Fenoaltea devoted more than five decades of great scientific activity (1967-2020) to more than five decades of Italy's economic history, 1861-1913, a central period to understand Italy's economic development, its industrialization: a huge research project of which his last book, "Reconstructing the Past. Revised Estimates of Italy’s Product, 1861-1913" represents an important and vital part. The article focuses on this complex book, which is Fenoaltea's last grand effort to understand post-Unification Italy and to propose a general method to study economic history. It is an important book. It offers new empirical material and new accurate thoughts to an old historiographical controversy: Gaetano Salvemini, and all historians who have pointed to a failure of Liberal Italy, would regard the latest Fenoaltea's reconstructions as grist for their mill. His methodology, however, is broad and far-reaching, not limited to the historical context from which it originated.

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  • Alberto Baffigi, 2022. "In Search for Another "Fish Story": Stefano Fenoaltea's Last (Unfinished) Revolution," Annals of the Fondazione Luigi Einaudi. An Interdisciplinary Journal of Economics, History and Political Science, Fondazione Luigi Einaudi, Torino (Italy), vol. 56(1), pages 139-148, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:fle:journl:v:56:y:2022:i:1:p:139-148
    DOI: 10.26331/1174
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    1. Fenoaltea, Stefano, 2015. "The measurement of production movements: Lessons from the general engineering industry in Italy, 1861–1913," Explorations in Economic History, Elsevier, vol. 57(C), pages 19-37.
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    Measurement; Historical National Accounts; Historical Sources; Giolittian Age.;
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    • C82 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Data Collection and Data Estimation Methodology; Computer Programs - - - Methodology for Collecting, Estimating, and Organizing Macroeconomic Data; Data Access
    • N13 - Economic History - - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics; Industrial Structure; Growth; Fluctuations - - - Europe: Pre-1913

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