A Monetary History of Italy

by Michele Fratianni, Franco Spinelli, Anna J. Schwartz

Overview

This volume deals with the monetary history of Italy from independence in 1861 to 1992. It provides the first complete analysis of a country that has experienced diverse and often dramatic monetary conditions. The book contributes in a novel way not only to the monetary debate, but also to fiscal and institutional questions. The authors combine economic theory, statistical data, and history in an accessible way that should prove useful to both economic historians and monetary economists.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521023450
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	11/24/2005
Series:	Studies in Macroeconomic History
Edition description:	Revised
Pages:	324
Product dimensions:	6.06(w) x 9.02(h) x 0.79(d)

Table of Contents

Foreword; Preface; 1. Structure, main themes and data of the monetary history; 2. Money growth and its determinants; 3. From political unification to 1913: creation of a new currency, multiplicity of banks of issue, banking legislations, monetary systems; 4. The First World War: inflation and stabilisation; 5. The 1920s and 1930s: foreign exchange policy and industrial and financial restructuring; 6. The Second World War and the 1947 stabilisation; 7. The fifties and sixties; 8. The seventies; 9. Italy in the eighties: towards Central Bank independence; 10. Conclusions; Bibliography; Index of authors; Subject Index.

Editorial Reviews

"...this volume is likely to be a basic reference work for European monetary and financial history." D.Mitch, Choice

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