Vittorio, Daniele; Paolo, Malanima - In: Rivista di storia economica (2014) 1, pp. 3-36
The recent work by E. Felice, "Perché il Sud è rimasto indietro", Bologna, Il Mulino, 2013, is rather a pamphlet than a book of economic history. In the present article, we discuss both the statistical series of regional GDP from 1871 until 2001 worked out by Felice (section 1), and the...