Growth and Structure in the Economy of Modern Italy

Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1965 Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. Large 8vo. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. xx, 475 pp, preface, 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, 1965. Price clipped. Inked name on ffep. Pristine, no wear. Clean, tight and strong binding with no underlining, highlighting or marginalia. Green cloth with gilt lettering to spine..