The Economy of Renaissance Italy - Paolo Malanima

The Economy of Renaissance Italy

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Buch | Hardcover
192 Seiten
2022
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-367-67774-9 (ISBN)
168,35 inkl. MwSt
Drawing on a wide range of literature and adopting a macroeconomic approach, this book provides a comprehensive overview of the Italian economy during the Renaissance, focusing on the period between 1348, the year of the Black Death, and 1630.

The Italian Renaissance played a crucial role in the formation of the modern world, with developments in culture, art, politics, philosophy, and science sitting alongside, and overlapping with, significant changes in production, forms of organization, trades, finance, agriculture, and population. Yet, it is usually argued that splendour in culture coexisted with economic depression and that the modernity of Renaissance culture coincided with an epoch of epidemics, famines, economic crisis, poverty, and destitution. This book examines both faces of the Italian economy during the Renaissance, showing that capital per worker was plentiful and productive capacity and incomes were relatively high. The endemic presence of the plague, curbing population growth, played an important role in this. It is also shown that the organization of production in industry and finance, consumerism, human capital, and mercantile rationality were the forerunners of modern-day capitalism.

This book is an invaluable resource for scholars and students of the Renaissance and Italian economic history.

Paolo Malanima is an economic historian. He has been Director of the Institute of Studies on Mediterranean Societies (ISSM-CNR) in Naples, Italy, and Professor of Compared Economies and Development Economics in Magna Graecia University in Catanzaro, Italy. His main research interests span the long-term Italian economy and past and present energy consumption.

Introduction 1 Population and labour 2 Wealth and capital 3 Productivity and efficiency 4 Production and income

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Routledge Explorations in Economic History
Zusatzinfo 40 Tables, black and white; 43 Line drawings, black and white; 43 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Gewicht 453 g
Themenwelt Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte Mittelalter
Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte Neuzeit (bis 1918)
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Wirtschaftsgeschichte
Wirtschaft Volkswirtschaftslehre Makroökonomie
ISBN-10 0-367-67774-1 / 0367677741
ISBN-13 978-0-367-67774-9 / 9780367677749
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