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Italian Industrialization and the Gerschenkronian “Great Spurt”: A Regional Analysis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 March 2009

Alfredo G. Esposto
Alfredo G. Esposto
Affiliation:
Department of Economics, Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, MI 48197.
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Abstract

Since the appearance of Gerschenkron's 1955 paper, economic historians have discussed extensively the industrial transformation of Italy from 1896 to 1908, which Gerschenkron claimed was the period of Italy's first big or great “spurt.” Those discussions, however, have been in terms of national aggregates. This article attempts to create instead a regional view of Italian industrialization for this period. My analysis of regional output for two benchmark years suggests there were three regional patterns of industrialization.

Type
Papers Presented at the Fifty-First Annual Meeting of the Economic History Association
Information
The Journal of Economic History , Volume 52 , Issue 2 , June 1992 , pp. 353 - 362
Copyright
Copyright © The Economic History Association 1992

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