Trade policy, and its effects oftariffs on structural change and industrialization, is arguably the 1110st contentious topic in Italian economic history. However, so far the discussion has relied almost exclusively on few scattered data and anecdotal evidence. This article builds on a...

Using a long-term macroeconomic database for 13 Latin American countries and the period 1913-2013, complemented with a dataset of exports by product, a positive relationship between industrialization and economic growth was found, both for the long run and for episodes of acceleration and...