DiGiorgi, Umberto; Moscati, Roberto; DiGiorgi, Umberto; … - In: Review of Radical Political Economics 12 (1980) 3, pp. 50-63
The continuing underdevelopment of Southern Italy is analyzed as a result of deliberate state policy, rather than as a failed attempt at development. Before 1945, the State supported the Southern landowning oligarchies. Since then, it has supplanted their power with that of a new state...