B026362 - HISTORY OF ITALIAN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

The course is about the Italian relative economic decline. it focuses on the long and medium-term reasons in order to understand the structural aspects of a process lasting now about 25 years

Ricchi per caso. La parabola dello sviluppo economico italiano, a cura di Michelangelo Vasta e Paolo Di Martino, il Mulino, Bologna, 2017

E. Felice, Ascesa e declino. Storia economica d'Italia, il Mulino, Bologna 2015

The aim of the course is developing a critical perception of the process of economic and social development. Thus the student should be able to interact this kind of knowledge with other economic and sociological approach offered in the master

A good knowledge of Italian contemporary history is requested as well as of other sociological, economic and political-institutional approaches

In the first part, a series of lectures will permit to introduce the main issues of the course in order to establish a sort of common base for all the students. In the second part, workshops and seminars will be organized for a collective analysis and discussion of the most relevant aspects of the debate about the Italian relative economic decline since the 1990s

Students taking part regularly to the course will be charged to introduce the debates and the seminars of the second part of the course.

External professors and experts will take part to seminars and workshops for widening and enriching the discussions

Final oral exam

1) The growth of Italy in the long run: facts and interpretations

2) Human capital and economic growth: the evolution of the Italian educational system

3) The Italian innovative system in a historical perspective

4) Institutions, politics and industrial structure

5) Institutions and economic performance in Italy: a long-term analysis