Economic and Business History of Contemporary Italy
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Storia dei piani per quartieri residenziali progettati e costruiti dal Gruppo Fiat in Italia e all’estero nel secondo Novecento, riletti attraverso le carte dell'archivio del Servizio Costruzioni Fiat, poi Fiat Engineering, poi Maire... more
This is an article published in France Pizza by Carole Gayet which draws extensively on an interview with me about the specialty coffee movement in Italy.
The State holding company, IRI, was created in 1933 for the purpose of taking over the industrial shareholdings of Italian universal banks in sectors including steel, telecommunications, shipbuilding, and automobiles.. It came forth with... more
"This paper presents new series of industrial value added in Italy from 1911 to 1938, the first ones not to incorporate the original Istat-Fuà figures for this period. They make use of the recent re-construction of national accounts for... more
Il focus del saggio è il fenomeno della cooperazione contrattuale (secondo la definizione Chandleriana) che ha interessato le imprese italiane dall’inizio del Novecento al termine del miracolo economico. Oltre ad una significativa... more
This work analyzes the combination between Italian immigration and industrial penetration in Argentina during the first Peronism (1946-1955). It studies the transfer of Italian companies with all staff and machinery to Argentina as part... more
L’articolo propone alcune riflessioni circa l’importanza della storia per le scienze sociali, a partire dal caso del divario Nord-Sud in Italia. La gerarchia delle disparità regionali in Italia non è rimasta fissa nel tempo, c’è stata... more
The book reconstructs the entrepreneurial biography of Giannino Bassetti (1893-1980), one of the most important European manufacturers of textile sector, through the words of his relatives, his friends and his closest associates.... more
The dramatic growth in Japanese raw silk exports between 1859 and 1929 can be divided into two phases. The ‘early-Meiji phase’, which began in the bakumatsu period, was characterised by a process of labour-intensive development. During... more
REGIONAL DISPARITIES AND PUBLIC POLICIES. A RE-EXAMINATION OF ITALIAN DEVELOPMENT. Italy is probably the European country with the widest and most historically deep-rooted regional disparities, at least (but maybe not only) in economic... more
This article aims at identifying the turning points in the early history of Italian telephone (1877–1915) considering at the same level political, economical, technical, and social dimensions and trying to reconstruct conflicts and... more
Imprenditore, urbanista, uomo politico, editore ed intellettuale italiano, Adriano Olivetti (1901-1960) fornì una lettura singolare della modernità e dimostrò la praticabilità di una via complessa e disinteressata verso il bene... more
Si pone in rilievo il ruolo di una rivista di disegno industriale, oggi design, nella storia dell'italiano contemporaneo. Fondata dall'architetto Alberto Rosselli nel 1954, la pubblicazione trimestrale e poi bimestrale, «Stile industria»,... more
Il capitolo ricostruisce l’evoluzione per settori dell’industria manifatturiera in Italia, approssimativamente dall’Unificazione ai nostri giorni, attraverso le vicende delle imprese ritenute di volta in volta più significative. I diversi... more
Il vincolo esterno, da Bretton Woods a Maastricht, passando per i trattati di Roma, ha rappresentato l'ancoraggio per un capitalismo dalle deboli radici, scarsamente capace di assumere una veste egemonica nei confronti delle classi... more
Con un secolo di vita alle spalle, la Società Produttori Sementi si è affermata come uno dei principali centri di ricerca genetica nei cereali a livello mondiale: rappresenta un'esperienza originale nel contesto economico nazionale ed... more
Nel lavoro viene ricostruita l’attività della Cassa per il Mezzogiorno in Abruzzo, nei suoi diversi settori d’intervento: agricoltura, infrastrutture (strade, acquedotti), aiuti all’industria (contributi a fondo perduto e prestiti... more
"[book available in Italian only, welcomed proposals for translation or international version!] A detailed reconstruction of the history of the Italian state-owned oil company (AGIP, then ENI) from 1926 to 1970s. The book deals with... more
In the 1970s Italy the cycle of inflation/devaluation represented a response to the challenges posed by class conflict and an offspring of a mercantilist vision of national development. Italian authorities essentially aimed at defending a... more
This article deals with the informal side of the economic relation network established during the Cold War between Italy and Hungary, through an analysis of the cooperation between the Hungarian import-export company Terimpex, which... more
During Enrico Mattei’s chairmanship, AGIP achieved important results in the natural gas business by completing a slow process of capabilities assimilation begun in the 1930s through the firm’s activities abroad and its relationship with... more
Dalmore Farm (1933-1934) was Victoria’s first biodynamic farming venture. A letter, written in Milan, Italy, in Italian in 1934 by Rosa Genoni (1867-1954) \ enables details of this venture to be finally revealed. Rosa wrote of her... more
In The Mediterranean Incarnate, anthropologist Naor Ben-Yehoyada takes us aboard the Naumachos for a thirty-seven-day voyage in the fishing grounds between Sicily and Tunisia. He also takes us on a historical exploration of the past... more
Spesso, nei suoi scritti, Caffè ripercorreva il periodo fecondo di idealità che traghettò la Resistenza in volontà Costituente, ponendo le basi programmatiche ed istituzionali del nuovo stato italiano. Ne registrava, tuttavia, con... more
Espresso coffee has become synonymous with Italy, as have those beverages which employ this as a base such as cappuccino and caffè latte. This article examines the processes by which espresso became “Itallan” over the course of the... more
Member states of the Eurozone are undergoing a turbulent period both domestically and internationally. On the national front, many countries, including Greece and Spain, have been led to early elections or the collapse of their government... more