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In this challenging, well researched and carefully argued book, the authors seek to contribute to the continuing debate about the nature and origins of small-scale industrialisation in Italy. They analyse [...]

In the first decades after the Second World War, there were considerable changes in the competitive position of the different steel producing nations. At an international level, the United States [...]

ROLF PETRI, Storia Economica d'Italia. Dalla Grande Guerra al Miracolo Economico (1918-1963) (Bologna: Il Mlino, 2002. Pp.364. ISBN 88 15 08435 5, £19). I read this book with great pleasure [...]

JON COHEN and GIOVANNI FEDERICO, The Growth of the Italian Economy, 1820-1960 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001 Pp.viii + 133. H/back ISBN 0521 66150 1, £19.95; p/back ISBN 0521 66692 [...]

Luciano Segreto's book deals with Italy's armaments industry from the perspective of an economic and business historian. It is a welcome attempt to put the Italian case on the map, [...]

This is an interesting and probing book, and the more serious readers should not be discouraged by a certain air of gloss and insideness in which it is couched. The [...]

This book looks into two areas: trade between Italy and Belgium and the flow of Belgian investment into the Italian industrial and service sector. Reciprocal trade was not enormously important [...]

Adler's book contributes to the literature on the rise of Fascism by examining the attitude of Confindustria, the employers' association. It makes two basic claims. The first is that Confindustria [...]