Internal geography and external trade: regional disparities in Italy, 1861-2011
This paper explores the interactions between external trade and regional disparities in the Italian economy since unification. It argues that the advantage of the North was initially based on natural advantage (in particular the endowment of water, intensive in silk production). From 1880 onwards...
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University of Oxford
2011
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