In Search for Another "Fish Story": Stefano Fenoaltea's Last (Unfinished) Revolution

Alberto Baffigi ()
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Alberto Baffigi: Banca d'Italia

Annals of the Fondazione Luigi Einaudi. An Interdisciplinary Journal of Economics, History and Political Science, 2022, vol. 56, issue 1, 139-148

Abstract: Stefano Fenoaltea devoted more than five decades of great scientific activity (1967-2020) to more than five decades of Italy's economic history, 1861-1913, a central period to understand Italy's economic development, its industrialization: a huge research project of which his last book, "Reconstructing the Past. Revised Estimates of Italy’s Product, 1861-1913" represents an important and vital part. The article focuses on this complex book, which is Fenoaltea's last grand effort to understand post-Unification Italy and to propose a general method to study economic history. It is an important book. It offers new empirical material and new accurate thoughts to an old historiographical controversy: Gaetano Salvemini, and all historians who have pointed to a failure of Liberal Italy, would regard the latest Fenoaltea's reconstructions as grist for their mill. His methodology, however, is broad and far-reaching, not limited to the historical context from which it originated.

Keywords: Measurement; Historical National Accounts; Historical Sources; Giolittian Age. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C82 N13 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.26331/1174

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