Research | Economic History

The research topics addressed within this area include:

• raw materials and the proto-modern age;

• modern rationing policies in the Mezzogiorno;

• maritime trade relations and fishing in the Mediterranean;

• entrepreneurs and businesses in the South in the 19th and 20th centuries;

• business and industry in the Province of Salerno in the 20th century;

• government policies for industrialisation in Europe and Italy;

• government intervention in Republican Italy;

• the role of elites in the industrialisation of the South in the 20th century;

• public investment in human capital in the South of Italy from Unification onwards.