Main description: The Poverty of Clio challenges the hold that cliometrics--an approach to economic history that employs the analytical tools of economists--has exerted on the study of our economic past. In this provocative book, Francesco Boldizzoni calls for the reconstruction of economic...

The Italian joint-stock banking system has faced three main crises: in 1897, with the demise of Societa Generale Italiana di Credito Mobiliare (Pantaleoni, 1936); in 1921-1923, with the crisis of two of the four main joint-stock banks, Banca Italiana di Sconto (Falchero, 1990) and Banco di Roma...