Content
2024, Issue 2
- 129-152 A historical Italian local population dataset (ITPOP), 1861-1921
by Tancredi Buscemi & Pau Insa-Sánchez - 153-194 «Red fear» and a «spontaneous land reform» in post-Great War Italy
by Pablo Martinelli Lasheras & Jordi Domènech Feliu - 195-220 Continuities and changes in municipal financial administration in Portugal: The impact of the Portuguese Liberal Revolution through a case study (Coimbra, 1820-1850)
by José Luís dos Santos Barbosa - 221-242 Working time, careers, and the labour market in the early modern period: Evidence from the Royal Palace of Palermo (1579-1609)
by Tancredi Buscemi
2024, Issue 1
- 3-42 Provincial estimates of the Italian value-added in the Liberal Age, 1871-1911
by Dario Chiaiese - 43-76 Intergenerational mobility in 19th-century Italy: A case study approach
by Giuliana Freschi & Marco Martinez - 77-102 Italian Bailouts, 1861-2021
by Nicola Rossi - 103-114 Gianni Toniolo and the Bank of Italy
by Ignazio Visco - 115-124 Women, economic history, and the Nobel
by Giulia Mancini - 125-126 Referees 2022-2023
by Rivista di storia economica
2023, Issue 3
- 265-286 Gender discrimination and intra-household inequality in rural Italy, 1920s-1930s
by Giulia Mancini - 287-330 Innovation and business performance in Italy, 1913-1936
by Giacomo Domini - 331-368 Early railways and industrial development: Local evidence from Sardinia in 1871–1911
by Ugo M. Gragnolati & Luigi Moretti & Roberto Ricciuti - 369-397 Winners and losers in Italian agriculture of the 1930s. A contribution to the analysis of the interwar crisis
by Francesco Chiapparino & Gabriele Morettini
2023, Issue 2
- 131-162 A social elevator? Occupational mobility in Italy, 1950-1970
by Giuliana Freschi - 163-202 Populism and the first wave of globalization: Evidence from the 1892 US presidential election
by Alexander Klein & Karl Gunnar Persson & Paul Sharp - 203-232 Governing conflict. Law and industrial relations in Italy, 1945-1980
by Roberto Ganau - 233-260 Reconstructing the demographic evolution of Piedmont from 1612 to 1900
by Francesco Scalone
2023, Issue 1
- 3-26 Patent law and economic performance
by Jochen Streb - 27-62 Understanding pre-industrial wages and incomes: A reassessment of the evidence and new interpretations based on France and Italy
by Leonardo Ridolfi - 63-88 Irregular citizens: Internal migrations and anti-urbanism in Italy (1955-1965)
by Gaspare Tortorici - 89-114 New directions in the history of Italian capitalism: A survey of business history on Italy, 1998-2021
by Paolo di Martino - 115-118 The use of composite indices in economic history: A long-standing, not silly debate
by Nicola Amendola & Giacomo Gabbuti & Giovanni Vecchi - 119-124 On income, education and freedom: A few comments on Prados’ Augmented Human Development Index
by Branko Milanovic - 125-126 On well-being and freedom: A response to Branko Milanovic
by Leandro Prados de la Escosura
2022, Issue 3
- 1-2 Gianni Toniolo and the Rivista di Storia Economica
by Pierluigi Ciocca - 265-269 Introduction
by Brian A'Hearn & Giacomo Gabbuti - 271-302 Italian industry under fascism. What we have learned from business history
by Marianna Astore - 303-336 Between Constraints and Opportunities: Big Italian Business and Autarky, 1934-1943
by Marco Bertilorenzi & Valerio Cerretano & Mario Perugini - 337-365 The fascist housing regime: policies, market and social wellbeing
by Fernando Salsano - 367-368 Presentation of the new section Surveys and Debates (S&D)
by Brian A'Hearn & Carlo Ciccarelli & Francesco Cinnirella & Anna Missiaia & Michelangelo Vasta - 369-376 A silly debate? Review of Leandro Prados de la Escosura, Human Development and the Path to Freedom. 1870 to the Present, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge (UK), 2022
by Jan Luiten van Zanden - 377-381 A not-so-silly debate! Response to Jan Luiten van Zanden’s review
by Leandro Prados de la Escosura - 383-384 From subjectivity to inter-subjective standards?
by Jan Luiten van Zanden - 385-386 From subjectivity to inter-subjectivity? Not quite so!
by Leandro Prados de la Escosura
2022, Issue 2
- 127-146 Incentives, Institutions, and Industrialization: A Prelude to Modern Economic Growth
by Joel Mokyr - 147-184 Telling figures: a new dataset on the regional origins of Italian Central Banking and the rise of piedmontese finance before 1861
by Maria Stella Chiaruttini - 185-210 Literacy and Land Inequality in Italy During Fascism. A Geographic- Historical Analysis
by Giacomo Zanibelli & Vito Ricci - 213-232 At the Heart of Fenoaltea’s Narrative: Italy and the International Financial Market (1880s-1913)
by Paolo Di Martino - 233-261 The «Baccarini Law» Railways (1880-1890): Their Long-Run Sectoral Economic Impact
by Roberto Bonfatti & Giovanni Facchini & Alexander Tarasov & Gian Luca Tedeschi & Cecilia Testa
2022, Issue 1
- 3-6 Editors’ Note
by Brian A'Hearn & Carlo Ciccarelli & Francesco Cinnirella & Anna Missiaia & Michelangelo Vasta - 7-10 Introduction
by Francesco Cinnirella & Paul Sharp - 11-28 Could Artisans Have Caused the Industrial Revolution?
by Kelly Morgan & Joel Mokyr & Cormac Ó Gráda - 29-56 Leaving Their Mark: Using Danish Student Grade Lists to Construct a More Detailed Measure of Historical Human Capital
by Nicholas Ford & Kristin Ranestad & Paul Sharp - 57-84 Elaboration and Diffusion of Useful Knowledge in the Long Run: The Case of European Practical Arithmetic (13th-16th Centuries)
by Raffaele Danna - 85-106 Music: A Growth Industry in Renaissance Italy
by Richard A. Goldthwaite - 107-108 Introduction: Economics, History and Economic History in Stefano Fenoaltea’s Cliometrics
by Alberto Baffigi & Giovanni Vecchi - 109-114 In Honour of Stefano Fenoaltea (1943-2020)
by Ignazio Visco - 115-124 The Fenoaltea Method: How Science Actually Advances
by Deirdre Nansen McCloskey
2021, Issue 3
- 201-237 Italian Economic History: A New Dawn?
by Martina Cioni & Giovanni Federico & Michelangelo Vasta - 239-295 The provincial labour force in services in Italy: estimates from the population censuses, 1871-1911
by Emanuele Felice & Francesco M.S. Fiore Melacrinis & Anna Missiaia - 297-318 Still glittering: a review of the literature on the classical gold standard, 1996-2020
by Paolo Di Martino - 319-354 2021. What Path for the EMU of tomorrow?
by Nicola Acocella
2021, Issue 2
- 95-113 Economic Inequality in Early Modern Venice: Evidence from a New Archival Source
by Mattia Viale & Edoardo Demo & Roberto Ricciuti - 115-150 The days they worked, the incomes they earned: new perspectives on work patterns and annual earnings in the French construction sector (1320-1850)
by Leonardo Ridolfi - 151-189 The Statist Neo-Institutionalism of Acemoglu and Robinson
by Deirdre Nansen McCloskey - 191-196 Economic Philosophies: Do They Still Matter?
by William A. Allen - 197-197 Errata corrige
by Rivista di storia economica
2021, Issue 1
- 3-5 Special Issue on Literacy and Development: Editors’ Notes
by Gabriele Cappelli & Carlo Ciccarelli - 7-32 Jesus Speaks Korean: Christianity and Literacy in Colonial Korea
by Sascha O. Becker & Cheongyeon Won - 33-61 The Policy and the Reality of Public Schooling in 19 th Century Imperial Austria
by Tomas Cvrcek - 63-90 Literacy in the Italian census of 1911: disaggregating the data
by Brian A'Hearn & Carlo Ciccarelli
2020, Issue 3
- 247-252 The Italian Economy Under Fascism
by Brian A'Hearn & Giacomo Gabbuti - 253-298 «When We Were Worse Off». The Economy, Living Standards and Inequality in Fascist Italy
by Giacomo Gabbuti - 299-343 Towards an Economic History of Italian Colonialism
by Mattia C. Bertazzini - 345-398 Measuring Bank Failures in Interwar Italy: Sources and Methods for a Comparative Account
by Marco Molteni - 399-407 Do We Need a New Economic History of Fascism?
by Matteo Gomellini - 409-410 Stefano Fenoaltea (1943-2020)
by Brian A'Hearn & Carlo Ciccarelli & Francesco Cinnirella & Anna Missiaia & Alessandro Nuvolari - 411-425 In memoriam: Stefano Fenoaltea (1943-2020)
by Christopher L. Hanes
2020, Issue 2
- 127-137 Italy’s History of Education: Towards an Interdisciplinary Approach
by Gabriele Cappelli & Carlo Ciccarelli - 139-173 What Were the Main Features of Nineteenth Century School Acts? Local School Organization, Basic Schooling, a Diversity of Revenues and the Institutional Framework of an Edu- cational Revolution
by Johannes Westberg - 175-221 State education budgets in the 20th century: literature review and research perspectives on the French case
by Clémence Cardon-Quint - 223-230 Reflections on the Research Project. L’istruzione in Italia tra Sette e Ottocento Coordinated by Angelo Bianchi
by Paolo Sestito - 231-237 Notes on the Research Project. L’istruzione in Italia tra Sette e Ottocento Coordi- nated by Angelo Bianchi
by Michelangelo Vasta - 239-242 Comment on the Research Project. L’istruzione in Italia tra Sette e Ottocento Coordi- nated by Angelo Bianchi
by Vera Zamagni
2020, Issue 1
- 3-41 A reconstruction of the italian provincial population (ca. 1770-1861): a new dataset
by Vitantonio Mariella & Michele Postigliola & Mauro Rota - 43-85 What do we know on household wealth?
by Diego Caprara & Riccardo De Bonis & Luigi Infante - 87-123 Literacy and schooling in Italy and Spain (1860-1921): a comparative analysis
by Gabriele Cappelli & Gloria Quiroga Valle
2019, Issue 3
- 249-268 The Age Distribution of the Labour Force as Evidence of Prior Production Movements: The Italian Data for 1911 and the Long Swing in Investment from Unification to the Great War
by Roberto Pezzuto - 269-294 Balancing the Current Account: Remittances and Tourism in Italy, 1861-1914
by Andrea Incerpi - 295-326 The Foundational Decade to Amartya Sen’s Capability Approach (1970-1980)
by Valentina Erasmo
2019, Issue 2
- 125-174 The Growth of Italy’s Leather Industries, 1861–1913: A Statistical Reconstruction
by Stefano Fenoaltea - 175-209 The Evolution of Firm Size During the Golden Age in Italy: Evidence from the Core
by Daniela Bragoli & Fabrizio Cipollini & Camilla Ferretti & Piero Ganugi & Renato Giannetti - 211-245 Looking at the Origins of the North- South Divide. The Regional Allocation of the National Budget Just after Italian Unification
by Giorgio Brosio
2019, Issue 1
- 3-35 Divergence in the End? Decomposing Income Inequality across Italy’s Regions, 1871-2011
by Gabriele Cappelli & Emanuele Felice & Julio Martinez-Galarraga & Daniel A. Tirado - 37-79 Expenditures, Conspicuous Consumption and Living Standard of a Nineteenth- Century Habsburg Family
by Marcella Lorenzini - 81-120 Economic History: «An Isthmus Joining Two Great Continents»?
by Cormac Ó Gráda
2018, Issue 3
- 257-292 Falling Behind in Globalization: Southern Italy in the Liberal Age
by Emanuele Felice - 293-356 Italy in the Market for Seagoing Vessels, 1861-1913: Domestic Production, Imports, and Exports
by Stefano Fenoaltea - 357-396 Wealth Inequality in Italy: A Reconstruction of 1968-1975 Data and a Comparison with Recent Estimates
by Luigi Cannari & Giovanni D'Alessio - 397-400 Ricordo di Giorgio Lunghini
by Pierluigi Ciocca & Gianni Toniolo
2018, Issue 2
- 137-172 Suffrage Extension, Government Size and National Identity in Europe Before WWI
by Giovanni B. Pittaluga & Elena Seghezza & Pierluigi Morelli - 173-240 Crisis and Reform: The 1893 Demise of «Banca Romana»
by Marco Pani - 241-254 The Italian Pension System: A Compact Historical Overview (1898-1970)
by Alessandro Morselli
2018, Issue 1
- 3-68 Women's Labor Force Participation in Italy, 1861-2011
by Giulia Mancini - 69-106 The History of Jobless Italy
by Manfredi Alberti - 107-134 The Monetary Policy of the Reichsbank during the Second World War
by Zdenka Johnson
2017, Issue 3
- 277-314 Was Putnam Wrong? The Determinants of Social Capital in Italy around 1900
by Gabriele Cappelli - 315-350 The Growth of Italy's Apparel Industry, 1861-1913: A Statistical Reconstruction
by Stefano Fenoaltea - 351-387 Energy Self-Sufficiency and the State Oil Industry. The Birth of ANIC
by Ezio Ritrovato
2017, Issue 2
- 117-158 Regional Wages and the North-South Disparity in Italy after the Unification
by Vittorio Daniele & Paolo Malanima - 159-246 The Engineering Industry in Italy's Regions, 1861-1913: A Statistical Reconstruction
by Stefano Fenoaltea - 247-273 Agriculture and Territorial Differentation in Southern Italy, 1880-1950
by Salvatore Vinciguerra
2017, Issue 1
- 3-44 The Baraccati of Rome: Internal Migration, Housing, and Poverty in Fascist Italy (1924-1933)
by Stefano Chianese - 45-88 Railway Endowment in Italy's Provinces, 1839-1913
by Carlo Ciccarelli & Peter Groote - 89-112 Currency Substitution and Instability in the Economy: The Soviet Experiment of the «Chervonets» in the Twenties
by Stefania Jaconis
2016, Issue 3
- 303-350 Land Inequality in Italy in 1940: The New Picture
by Pablo Martinelli - 351-380 Animal Spirits in Designer Suits. The Representation of Finance in Walter Siti's Resistere non serve a niente
by Stefano Adamo - 381-402 House Prices in Italy, 1927-2012
by Luigi Cannari & Giovanni D'Alessio & Giovanni Vecchi - 403-416 Understanding the Ancient Near Eastern Economy: A Note from the Sidelines
by Stefano Fenoaltea - 417-426 Marcello De Cecco 1939-2016
by Paolo Paesani
2016, Issue 2
- 137-176 On Historical Household Budgets
by Brian A'Hearn & Nicola Amendola & Giovanni Vecchi - 177-210 "Data to Die For"?: Finnish Historical Household Budgets
by Sakari Saaritsa - 211-248 Did the Poor Pay More? Income-related variations in Diet and Food Quality among Urban Households in Sweden 1913-1914
by Stefan Öberg - 249-268 Household Budget Studies in the British Dominions, 1873-1939
by Evan Roberts - 269-299 Scared to Be Poor: vulnerability and Poverty in Great Britain at the Beginning of the 20th century
by Federica Di Battista
2016, Issue 1
- 3-16 Looking Backward, Moving Forward
by Brian A'Hearn & Giovanni Federico & Alessandro Nuvolari & Giovanni Vecchi - 17-76 Urban Systems and the Political and Economic Structures of Early-Imperial Italy
by Luuk de Ligt - 77-108 Inventive Activities, Patents and Early Industrialisation: A Synthesis of Research Issues
by Christine MacLeod & Alessandro Nuvolari - 109-112 Fenoaltea on Industrial Employment in 1911: A Reply
by Vera Zamagni - 113-118 Fenoaltea on Industrial Employment in 1911: A Rejoinder
by Stefano Fenoaltea - 119-133 The Holy Grail of Economic History: Long-Run Economic Growth and the Industrial Revolution in Britain
by Giovanni Federico
2015, Issue 3
- 309-340 Measuring Economic Inequality in the Pre-industrial Era: A Comparison of Different Areas of Northern and Central Italy
by Francesco Ammannati & Davide De Franco & Matteo Di Tullio - 341-372 Why Did Japan Delay the Adoption of the Gold Standard?
by Pierluigi Morelli & Giovanni B. Pittaluga & Elena Seghezza - 373-394 Economic Management of Minoan and Mycenaean States and Their Development
by Serge Svizzero & Clement A. Tisdell - 395-432 The Economic Interests of Austria- Hungary in China between 1900-1914
by Ales Skrivan - 433-471 Thomas Piketty. Capital in the Twenty-first Century: Instructions for Use
by Riccardo De Bonis
2015, Issue 2
- 155-224 A Historical Reconstruction of Capital and Labour in Italy, 1861-2013
by Claire Giordano & Francesco Zollino - 225-246 Industrial Employment in Italy, 1911: The Burden of the Census Data
by Stefano Fenoaltea - 247-288 The Economic Evaluation of Public Expenditure in the Extraordinary Intervention for Southern Italy
by Salvo Creaco - 289-294 The «Mixed Bank» in Italy
by Francesco Cesarini - 295-302 Augusto Graziani's Critical Approach from Walras to Marx
by Giorgio Lunghini
2015, Issue 1
- 3-5 Introduzione
by Rivista di storia economica - 7-24 Akkadian Economics
by Benjamin R. Foster - 25-56 The Neo-Sumerian Economy
by Francesco Pomponio & Lorenzo Verderame - 57-78 Production and Trade in the Old Assyrian Period
by Cécile Michel - 79-96 Production and Commerce in the Old Babylonian Period
by Marc Van De Mieroop - 97-120 Fundamental Aspects of Production and Trade in Nuzi: Some Observations
by Paola Negri Scafa - 121-146 Produzione e commercio nella Mesopotamia dell'Età imperiale
by Melanie Groß & Michael Jursa & Reinhard Pirngruber
2014, Issue 3
- 255-280 Theories About the Commencement of Agriculture in Prehistoric Societies: A Critical Evaluation
by Serge Svizzero & Clem Tisdell - 281-324 Mercantile routes and agriculture transformation in Southern Italy and Sicily between the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries
by Salvatore Vinciguerra - 325-356 Industry and structural change in Italy: crisis and privatizations in the 1990s. In search of a new industrial policy
by Fabrizio Onida - 357-374 The Italian Economic Miracle: The Role of the IRI
by Pier Luigi Porta
2014, Issue 2
- 121-160 The Role of Institutions in Manufacturing Development. Three Approaches to Industrial Policy after World War II
by Livio Romano & Fabrizio Traù - 161-188 Reversal of Fortune Revisited: The Geography of Transport and the Changing Balance of World Economic Power
by Brishti Guha & Ashok S. Guha - 189-196 Response to Professor Nardozzi's Comment
by Forrest Capie & Geoffrey Wood - 197-242 Southern Italy between History and Popular Literature. A Reply to Daniele and Malanima
by Emanuele Felice - 243-248 Due commenti finali
by Vittorio Daniele & Paolo Malanima
2014, Issue 1
- 3-36 Why Did the South Fall Behind? The Italian Mezzogiorno between History and Pamphlets
by Vittorio Daniele & Paolo Malanima - 37-58 Besieging The French Liberal Fortress: the Diffusion of Italian and German Economic Thought in the Last Quarter of the 19th Century
by Monika Poettinger - 59-70 Garibaldi and Financial Markets of the Time: Did Investors Discount Expedition of the Thousand?
by Luciano Canova - 71-90 The Economists and Second World War Financing: Political Ideologies and Economic Doctrines
by Alessandro Roselli - 91-100 Napoleonic Policy about Infrastructure of the Roads in Taro's Department
by Alessandro De Luca - 101-114 Cambiamento climatico: ripensare la storia economica dell'era industriale. Su un libro recente di William Nordhaus
by Ignazio Musu
2013, Issue 3
- 267-318 The Non-Metallic Mineral Products Industries in Italy, 1861-1913: National and Regional Time Series
by Carlo Ciccarelli & Stefano Fenoaltea - 319-342 A Common Currency in Europe? From the Werner Plan to the Euro: An Incomplete and Dangerous Integration
by Paolo Tedeschi - 343-348 Central Banks' Independence as a Will-o'-the-Wisp. A Comment on Capie and Wood
by Giangiacomo Nardozzi - 349-354 Ancora sul brigantaggio meridionale
by Paolo Macry - 355-378 La III Dinastia di Ur (XXI secolo a.C.). Testi e bibliografia
by Odoardo Bulgarelli
2013, Issue 2
- 141-192 The Industrial Labor Force of Italy's Provinces: Estimates from the Population Censuses, 1871-1911
by Carlo Ciccarelli & Anna Missiaia - 193-222 Central Bank Independence: Can it Survive a Crisis?
by Forrest Capie & Geoffrey Wood - 223-248 Economic Theory and Policies: The Inheritance of the Recent Past
by Nicola Acocella - 249-260 Machiavelli and the Economy
by Pierluigi Ciocca
2013, Issue 1
- 3-30 Banditry and the Economy in the South of Italy, 1860-1870
by Pierluigi Ciocca - 31-54 Economic Growth in England, 1250-1850: Some New Estimates Using a Demand Side Approach
by Alessandro Nuvolari & Mattia Ricci - 55-86 The Glorious Revolution: Constitutional Reform and Income Distribution
by Elena Seghezza - 87-118 The Electric Company of the City of Terni
by Danilo Stenella - 119-134 A Contribution to the History of the Company Terni (1931-1958)
by Mario Mencarelli & Giovanna Mencarelli
2012, Issue 3
- 409-452 The Consumption of Tobacco in Italy, 1871-1913: National and Regional Estimates
by Carlo Ciccarelli - 453-486 The Policy of Stockpiling Grain and its Costs to the Italian State after World War II
by Donatella Strangio - 487-526 Republic-Monarchy Referendum: The Solution of an Enigma
by Vanni Mengotto & Andrea Venturini
2012, Issue 2
- 279-284 Luciano Cafagna e la storia economica
by Giovanni Federico - 285-318 The Growth of the Italian Economy, 1861-1913: The Expenditure Side Re-(and De-)constructed
by Stefano Fenoaltea - 319-350 American Consumers Facing Inflation, 1965-1979: The Economists' Accounts
by Roberto Romani - 351-366 The Intellectual, Moral and Scientific Legacy of Sergio Steve in the Personal Revisitation by a Former Research Student
by Stefano Gorini - 367-386 A History-Based Growth Model of the Italian Economy
by Stefano Piermattei - 387-402 Users and Productive Activities at the Mendicity Store of Taro's Department During the Late Napoleonic Age (1810-1814)
by Alessandro De Luca
2012, Issue 1
- 3-4 Presentazione
by Giuliano Muzzioli - 5-6 Messaggio del Presidente
by José Manuel Durão Barroso - 7-8 Messaggio del Presidente Emerito della Repubblica
by Carlo Azeglio Ciampi - 9-26 Centocinquant'anni: per una 'teoria della storia economica' d'Italia
by Pierluigi Ciocca - 27-34 Commento al saggio di Pierluigi Ciocca
by Michele Salvati - 35-44 Commento al saggio di Pierluigi Ciocca. Il protagonista dimenticato: l'Italia dei distretti
by Sergio Paba - 45-60 La cornice, le regole, i mezzi
by Francesco Vella - 61-78 Il sistema infrastrutturale italiano fra acquisizioni e vincoli, opportunità e mancanze
by Andrea Giuntini - 79-84 Commento al saggio di Andrea Giuntini
by Francesco Karrer - 85-100 Il ruolo dello Stato
by Vera Zamagni - 101-110 Commento al saggio di Vera Zamagni. Lo Stato: il protagonista irrinunciabile
by Filippo Cavazzuti - 111-134 Le dimensioni nazionali della finanza. Vincoli e opportunità nei 150 anni di storia italiana
by Giuseppe Conti - 135-144 Commento al saggio di Giuseppe Conti
by Marco Onado - 145-172 La forza di Prometeo: il nuovo in un paese vecchio
by Renato Giannetti - 173-176 Commento al saggio di Renato Giannetti
by Margherita Russo - 177-196 Sviluppo economico, benessere e disuguaglianza: Italia, 1861-2011
by Giovanni Vecchi - 197-202 Commento al saggio di Giovanni Vecchi
by Alessandro Roncaglia - 203-230 Imprese e imprenditori
by Franco Amatori & Andrea Colli - 231-236 Commento al saggio di Franco Amatori e Andrea Colli. Il modello di industrializzazione, oggi
by Fabrizio Traù - 237-252 Il lavoro verso la precarietà? Un mondo che cambia in fretta
by Giuseppe Berta - 253-260 Commento al saggio di Giuseppe Berta
by Tito Boeri - 261-268 Considerazioni conclusive
by Marco Cattini