Serra and Underdevelopment

Cosimo Perrotta

Chapter 10 in Antonio Serra and the Economics of Good Government, 2016, pp 214-233 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract This paper is in some respects a continuation of a previous article,1 in which we set out to demonstrate that Antonio Serra took a fully mercantilist approach; that — on examining the Kingdom of Naples — he was the first to investigate economic backwardness; and, finally, that he was also the first to analyse economic dependence (together with Luis Ortiz,2 but more in depth). Here we mean to show that Serra’s analysis is also useful to understand both the origin of Southern Italy’s backwardness and some basic processes of underdevelopment in general.

Keywords: Effective Government; Artisanal Activity; Manufacturing Activity; Large Estate; Southern Dynasty (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1057/9781137539960_11

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