This paper examines the relationship between inequality and economic growth in 18 LIS countries. They begin with a discussion of the fact that issues of conceptual and statistical comparability are essential to the understanding and measurement of the growth-equality relationship and their...

Introduction -- Chapter 1. A Different Perspective -- Chapter 2. Italian business dynamism -- Chapter 3. Beliefs, values and preferences -- Chapter 4. Re-reading Italian economic events -- Chapter 5. Bumblebees don't exist -- Conclusions.