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

Alfredo G. Esposto

The Journal of Economic History, 1992, vol. 52, issue 2, 353-362

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.

Date: 1992
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