Carlo Bastasin and Gianni Toniolo provide a much-needed, up-to-date economic history of Italy from unification in 1861 … to the present day. They show how, thirty years after unification, Italy began a long phase of convergence with more … advanced economies so that by the late twentieth century Italy's per capita income reached the levels of Germany, France and …

"Carlo Bastasin and Gianni Toniolo provide a much-needed, up-to-date economic history of Italy from unification in 1861 … to the present. They reveal the factors behind Italy's twentieth-century growth as well as how economic decline in the …