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This Oxford Handbook provides a fresh overall view and interpretation of the modern economic growth of one of the largest European countries, whose economic history is less known internationally than that of other comparably large and successful economies. It will provide, for the first time, a comprehensive, quantitative "new economic history" of Italy. The handbook offers an interpretation of the main successes and failures of the Italian economy at a macro level, the research-conducted by a large international team of scholars -contains entirely new quantitative results and interpretations, spanning the entire 150-year period since the unification of Italy, on a large number of issues. By providing a comprehensive view of the successes and failures of Italian firms, workers, and policy makers in responding to the challenges of the international business cycle, the book crucially shapes relevant questions on the reasons for the current unsatisfactory response of the Italian economy to the ongoing "second globalization". Most chapters of the handbook are co-authored by both an Italian and a foreign scholar.

Economic policy and planning (general) --- Italy --- Italie --- Economic conditions. --- Economic policy. --- Conditions économiques --- Politique économique --- IT / Italy - Italië - Italie --- 331.100 --- 338 <09> <45> --- Economische geschiedenis: algemeenheden. --- Economische geschiedenis--Italië --- 338 <09> <45> Economische geschiedenis--Italië --- E-books --- History --- Conditions économiques --- Politique économique --- Annals --- Economic policy --- Auxiliary sciences of history --- Economische geschiedenis: algemeenheden

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Post-unification Italy was part of a wider world within which men and money circulated freely; it developed to the extent that those mobile resources chose to locate on its soil. The economy's cyclical movements reflected conditions in international financial markets, and were little affected by domestic policies. State intervention restricted the internal and international mobility of goods, and limited Italy's development: it kept the economy weak, reduced Italy's weight in the comity of nations, and paved the way for the frustrations and adventurism that would plunge the twentieth century into world war.

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The manufacture of luxury textiles, such as silk, was central to an Italian Renaissance economy based on status and conspicuous consumption. From the rapidly changing fashions that drove demand to the jobs created for craftsmen, weavers and merchants, the wealth and prestige associated with silk throughout Europe made it Italy's leading export industry. In this work, Luca Molà examines the silk industry in Renaissance Venice amid changing markets, suppliers, producers and government regulations. Drawing on archival research and European scholarship, Molà documents the innovations Venetians made in manufacturing and marketing to spur the silk industry. He uncovers the alliance between manufacturers and government to promote the industry in a changing international economic environment. Through flexible laws, quality was regulated to meet the varying requirements of an increasing range of customers. Molà also analyzes state policy that favoured the development and organization of silk producers throughout the Terraferma.

HISTORY --- Europe / Italy --- 677.027 --- 677.37 --- 391 <45> --- 945.34 VENEZIA --- Textile dyeing, printing and finishing --- Silk --- Kleding. Mode. Sieraden. Volksdracht--Italië --- Geschiedenis van Italië: Veneto; Venezia; Venezia Tridentina--(reg./lok.) --- Silk industry --- Government policy --- History. --- 945.34 VENEZIA Geschiedenis van Italië: Veneto; Venezia; Venezia Tridentina--(reg./lok.) --- 391 <45> Kleding. Mode. Sieraden. Volksdracht--Italië --- 677.37 Silk --- 677.027 Textile dyeing, printing and finishing --- History --- Silk manufacture and trade --- Textile industry --- Government policy&delete&

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Business, Economy and Management --- Business Management --- Economics --- Industrial policy --- Economic policy --- Economic policy. --- Industrial policy. --- economics. --- industry. --- sciences économiques. --- industrie. --- ciencias económicas. --- industria. --- Italy. --- Italie. --- Italia.

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This work offers the first English-language survey of the book industry in Renaissance Italy. Whereas traditional accounts of the book in the Renaissance celebrate authors and literary achievement, this study examines the nuts and bolts of a rapidly expanding trade that built on existing economic practices while developing new mechanisms in response to political and religious realities. Approaching the book trade from the perspective of its publishers and booksellers, this archive-based account ranges across family ambitions and warehouse fires to publishers' petitions and convivial bookshop conversation. In the process it constructs a nuanced picture of trading networks, production, and the distribution and sale of printed books, a profitable but capricious commodity. Originally published in Italian as Il commercio librario nell’Italia del Rinascimento (Milan: Franco Angeli, 1998; second, revised edition, 2003), this present English translation has not only been updated but has also been deeply revised and augmented.

Book history --- anno 1400-1499 --- anno 1500-1599 --- Italy --- 094 <45> --- 094 "14/15" --- 655.42 <45> --- Oude en merkwaardige drukken. Kostbare en zeldzame boeken. Preciosa en rariora--Italië --- Oude en merkwaardige drukken. Kostbare en zeldzame boeken. Preciosa en rariora--Renaissance. Periode 1400-1599 --- Boekhandel--algemeen--Italië --- Book industries and trade --- History --- History. --- Education --- Social Sciences --- Book Studies & Arts --- 094 "14/15" Oude en merkwaardige drukken. Kostbare en zeldzame boeken. Preciosa en rariora--Renaissance. Periode 1400-1599 --- 094 <45> Oude en merkwaardige drukken. Kostbare en zeldzame boeken. Preciosa en rariora--Italië --- distribution [function] --- bookselling --- Book trade --- Cultural industries --- Manufacturing industries --- E-books