Rivista di storia economica

1997 - 2026

Current editor(s): P.L. Ciocca, G. Federico, G. Toniolo (resp.)

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Leviathan’s health: State capacity and pestilence from the Black Death to Covid pp. 131-159: Sheilagh Ogilvie
Landownership concentration and human capital in Italy: Evidence from municipalities, 1911-1921 pp. 161-198: Oumar Ben Salha and Paolo Buonanno
Land, labor, and the State: Allocation Mechanisms in Fascist Italy’s Pontine Ager colonization scheme (1932-1943) pp. 199-232: Francesco Romagnoli

Special issue on the history of credit and banking in a global perspective. Guest editor’s introduction pp. 3-11: Paolo Di Martino
Debt and taxes. Deferred obligations and immediate demands in fiscal history pp. 13-45: Rui Esteves
The geography of financial integration: Regional disparities in Italian correspondent banking with London, 1920-1985 pp. 47-79: Marco Molteni, Giovanni M. Pala and Catherine R. Schenk
International trade in times of financial distress: How the Great Depression reshaped Banca Commerciale Italiana’s acceptance activity in New York (1926-1931) pp. 81-106: Federico Castelli
Innovation as economic history: Some reflections on Joel Mokyr’s vision and achievement after the Nobel Prize pp. 107-126: Alessandro Nuvolari

Working time in the pre-industrial iron industry. The Royal Artillery Factories of Liérganes and La Cavada (1765-1794) pp. 255-283: Mikel Navarro-Satrustegui
Populism and its discontents, 1882-1906 pp. 285-306: Stephen J. DeCanio
Elite persistence in medieval Venice after the Black Death pp. 307-329: Adelaide Baronchelli, Roberto Ricciuti and Mattia Viale
Conflict inflation in Italy during the Golden Age. Evidence from Provincial data, 1952-1972 pp. 331-360: Edoardo Rappa

Italy in wide-angle: Workforce, emigration, population and GDP at the provincial level in Republican Italy (1951-1991) pp. 121-155: Dario Chiaiese and Valentina Ciriotto
A cliometric reappraisal of the impacts of plague outbreaks on pre-industrial France pp. 157-196: Guillaume Morel and Magali Jaoul-Grammare
Not all that glitters is good. Material wealth and living standards in rural Piedmont, 1650-1800 pp. 197-222: Alberto Concina
Negotiating value: Protested bills of exchange and currency dynamics in the 15th century between the Crown of Aragon and Pisa pp. 223-251: Sari-Yehuda Nassar and Gerard Marí Brull

Editors’ Note pp. 3-6: Maanik Nath and Tirthankar Roy
The economy of Sri Lanka in the 20th century: Explaining success and failure pp. 7-31: Anne Booth
Charting longevity: India’s journey to increased life expectancy, 1940 to 1970 pp. 33-64: Latika Chaudhary
Law and the cooperative «movement» in India pp. 65-94: Maanik Nath
Development policy and legal persistence: Evidence from India pp. 95-116: Tirthankar Roy and Anand V. Swamy

A reconstruction of the Italian road network, 1861-1910 pp. 247-276: Marco Martinez
Should I stay or should I go? Living standards of serfs and peasants in 18th century Moscow pp. 277-304: Elena Korchmina
The corporate community and the company magazine: Inclusion and cohesion in Pirelli (1950-2019) pp. 305-328: Ilaria Suffia
A Nobel prize for economic history? pp. 329-341: Giovanni Federico

A historical Italian local population dataset (ITPOP), 1861-1921 pp. 129-152: Tancredi Buscemi and Pau Insa-Sánchez
«Red fear» and a «spontaneous land reform» in post-Great War Italy pp. 153-194: Pablo Martinelli and Jordi Domènech Feliu
Continuities and changes in municipal financial administration in Portugal: The impact of the Portuguese Liberal Revolution through a case study (Coimbra, 1820-1850) pp. 195-220: José Luís dos Santos Barbosa
Working time, careers, and the labour market in the early modern period: Evidence from the Royal Palace of Palermo (1579-1609) pp. 221-242: Tancredi Buscemi

Provincial estimates of the Italian value-added in the Liberal Age, 1871-1911 pp. 3-42: Dario Chiaiese
Intergenerational mobility in 19th-century Italy: A case study approach pp. 43-76: Giuliana Freschi and Marco Martinez
Italian Bailouts, 1861-2021 pp. 77-102: Nicola Rossi
Gianni Toniolo and the Bank of Italy pp. 103-114: Ignazio Visco
Women, economic history, and the Nobel pp. 115-124: Giulia Mancini
Referees 2022-2023 pp. 125-126: Rivista di storia Economica

Gender discrimination and intra-household inequality in rural Italy, 1920s-1930s pp. 265-286: Giulia Mancini
Innovation and business performance in Italy, 1913-1936 pp. 287-330: Giacomo Domini
Early railways and industrial development: Local evidence from Sardinia in 1871–1911 pp. 331-368: Ugo Gragnolati, Luigi Moretti and Roberto Ricciuti
Winners and losers in Italian agriculture of the 1930s. A contribution to the analysis of the interwar crisis pp. 369-397: Francesco Chiapparino and Gabriele Morettini

A social elevator? Occupational mobility in Italy, 1950-1970 pp. 131-162: Giuliana Freschi
Populism and the first wave of globalization: Evidence from the 1892 US presidential election pp. 163-202: Alexander Klein, Karl Gunnar Persson and Paul Sharp
Governing conflict. Law and industrial relations in Italy, 1945-1980 pp. 203-232: Roberto Ganau
Reconstructing the demographic evolution of Piedmont from 1612 to 1900 pp. 233-260: Francesco Scalone

Patent law and economic performance pp. 3-26: Jochen Streb
Understanding pre-industrial wages and incomes: A reassessment of the evidence and new interpretations based on France and Italy pp. 27-62: Leonardo Ridolfi
Irregular citizens: Internal migrations and anti-urbanism in Italy (1955-1965) pp. 63-88: Gaspare Tortorici
New directions in the history of Italian capitalism: A survey of business history on Italy, 1998-2021 pp. 89-114: Paolo di Martino
The use of composite indices in economic history: A long-standing, not silly debate pp. 115-118: Nicola Amendola, Giacomo Gabbuti and Giovanni Vecchi
On income, education and freedom: A few comments on Prados’ Augmented Human Development Index pp. 119-124: Branko Milanovic
On well-being and freedom: A response to Branko Milanovic pp. 125-126: Leandro Prados de la Escosura