In post-Unification Italy the cyclical movements of the economy largely reflected those in the production of durable … goods. The engineering industry has been seen as one that transformed metal into machines: its metal consumption suggests … long cycle in aggregate "engineering" was not so much parallel to, as simply part of, the cycle in construction. Investment …

In Italy two censuses were taken in 1911: the usual demographic census, that contains labor-force data, and the first …

This paper presents the second-generation estimates for the Italian engineering industry in 1911, a year documented …

All the extant interpretations of united Italy's early industrial development focus on the long swing in industrial … investment evident in the familiar indices of the engineering industry's aggregate product. Disaggregated production series for … engineering-industry product series has undercut the empirical premise of sixty years of scholarship …

All the extant interpretations of united Italy's early industrial development focus on the long swing in industrial … investment evident in the familiar indices of the engineering industry's aggregate product. Disaggregated production series for … a different path: against the extant literature it shows that tariff hikes were influential, and above all that Italy …

The reconstruction of the historical national accounts for post-Unification Italy is proceeding. The national time … series most recently compiled are those for the all-important engineering industry; this paper presents their regional … counterparts. The engineering industry is very unevenly documented in the historical sources. Data abound for the shipbuilding and …

patterns of the occupational structure in pre-unification Italy, combining direct observations and urbanization rates. In 1861 …, the agricultural labour share was higher in Southern Italy than in the Centre and North. During the Risorgimento … fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, as the Centre-North stagnated and the South grew slowly. Southern Italy forged ahead of China …