Author: George H. Hildebrand
Title: GROWTH AND STRUCTURE IN THE ECONOMY OF MODERN ITALY..
Description: Cambridge, Harvard Press, 1965. Un volume (24 cm) di XX-475 pagine. In lingua inglese. Tela editoriale blu con titolo dorato al dorso. Ottime condizioni. Index: Part I. The Italian Miracle: I. The Postwar Economy of Italy in Perspective; II. Inflation and Monetary Policy, 1945-1949: The Inflation Process, The Impacts of Monetary Stabilization; III. The Long Boom, 1948-1961 -- Output, Prices, and Income: The Growth of Output and Its Stability, The Effects of Intervention into the South upon Interregional Imbalance; IV. The Long Boom, 1948-1961 -- The Foreign Balance and Money Supply: The Foreign Balance, Monetary and Fiscal Operations. Part II. The Labor Market: V. Population and the Labor Market: Quantitative Movements, Qualitative Changes; VI. The Labor Force -- Its Growth and Uses: Quantitative and Qualitative Characteristics, Movements in the Structure of Employment; VII. The Problem of Unemployment: The History of the Unemployment Question in Italy, Postwar Unemployment, The Question of Underemployment, A Comparison with West Germany, 1951-1961, Why Persistent Mass Unemployment, 1945-1959; VIII. Wage and Social Secutity Policy: Italian Wage Policy since the Thirties, The Recent Evolution of the Social Welfare System; IX. Postwar Movements in Wages: Wage Movements by Main Sectors, Postwar in Industry, The Broader Significance of the Bifurcated Wage System. Part III. Diversities of Structure: X. Evidence of the Dual Character of the Italian Economy: introduction, Dualism in the Italian Economy; XI. Geographic Dualism: The Paroblem of South Italy; XII. Long-Run Forces Obstructing the Emergence of a Unified Industrial Economy: The Inherent and Acquired Advantages of the North, The Chronic Backwardness of the South, Restricted Capital Formation, Conclusion; XIII. Technological Restraints: Did They delay Economic Unification?: Structural Disequilibrium and the Competitive Model; XIV. Market Imperfections As a Factor in Delayed economic Unification: Before World War II, Market Imperfections and Continued Obstruction of Economic Unification After World War II, Conclusion; XV. Achievements, Problems, and Prospects: Explaining the Boom, Economic Develoopments After 1961, Issues and Prospects; selected bibliography, notes, index. First Edition.

Keywords: ECONOMIA