Economic Chronicles of Thirty Years. The Cyclical Growth of the Italian Economy, 1881-1913 in the Interpretation of Luigi Einaudi and his School
Einaudi's contribution to an understanding of pre-1914 Italian economic development has so far been somewhat belittled. A close analysis of his works, together with the contributions of other scholars of the Turin School of economics, reveal a well-structured interpretation of the behavior of the Italian economy during the thirty-year period from the early 1880s up to the First World War. Einaudi examined the phenomenon by starting out from a theoretical apparatus built around a classical-Marshallian vision of economic development and a set of business cycle theories focusing on credit and money. Based on an extensive set of statistical indicators, Einaudi's interpretation is that of an economy which underwent a prolonged period of gradual strengthening, displaying a cyclical tendency defined by roughly twenty-year periods, with a particularly sharp growth spurt between 1898 and 1908 (the so-called «Giolittian growth»). This was made possible by the increase of gold, which had a twofold repercussion: on the one hand, it was among the elements that led to a greater availability of capital on the international level, and on the other, with the constant (but contained) increase in prices, it favoured the activities and expectations of industrialists and traders.
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2010
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Authors: | Francesco, Cassata ; Roberto, Marchionatti |
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Rivista di storia economica. - Società editrice il Mulino, ISSN 0393-3415. - 2010, 2, p. 161-208
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Società editrice il Mulino |
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