The Italian economy is certainly one of the industrial countries and major economies in the world, but has always been an economy with some special features. The country has known more than thirty years ago the years of the "economic miracle". The Italian economy today is far from the growth...

Una ricostruzione del dibattito sullo sviluppo dell'industria nell'Italia postunitaria ci riporta ad uno scontro durissimo fra economisti, che pur nella diversa derivazione ed impegno accademico, hanno assunto tutti ruoli e responsabilita' politiche nel loro tempo. Comparando le dinamica dei...

Nel lavoro argomentiamo che le conoscenze sulle imprese familiari sono del tutto inadeguate rispetto alla dimensione che il fenomeno riveste in Italia. Infatti, i pur imprecisi confronti tra Paesi europei rivelano che le imprese familiari avrebbero il massimo peso nel sistema produttivo...

This contribution is an analysis and a comment of the Final Remarks of the Governor of the Bank of Italy and his directions of economic policy for the Italian economy. An economy that has a high unemployment and also supports a public debt that, despite the recent efforts of fiscal...

Employment, unemployment and, more generally, the theme of work are the issues that have become a social emergency and are central to the debate on economic growth. This paper examines the employment and unemployment in Italy and Europe in the nineties, ie in a period of major institutional...

L’economia italiana è caratterizzata da un’ampia prevalenza di PMI. Negli ultimi dieci anni, crescenti segnali di crisi, da parte dei sistemi tradizionali con cui l’economia industriale italiana si è organizzata, per rafforzare le sue PMI (e in particolare i distretti industriali e più...

The aim of the paper is the explanation of the instability of the financing rules embracing the political-electoral cycles approach. A demonstration of the two following assertions is presented: - when Local Governments (Regions) are the sole manager of the HCS' expenditure, the increase of HCS'...

We discuss the international specialization of Italy as a determinant of its rate of economic growth, documenting an incomplete economic evolution: Italy is still a follower economy in some aspects while it is being followed in some others. We show that the productivity level associated to the...

This paper examines the main issues related to the labor market in Italy and indicates some possible solutions that do not focus exclusively on the flexibility of the labor market, but rather on the overall problem and the complexity of employment, with its economic dimension, but also social....

This paper deals with the issue of the prospects for the Italian economy and its entry into the monetary union in Europe. The Europe is therefore the topic of the moment. In particular, the paper is an analysis of the volume edited by Jader Jacobelli (2000), which in turn contains the...