Table of Contents

Preface; 1. Italy's parabola, 1861-2022; 2. Political unification and slow growth; 3. Convergence and sorpasso; 4. The trauma of 1992; 5. The lost opportunity, 1996-2007; 6. Sliding toward zero growth; 7. The canary in the coalmine.

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Carlo Bastasin and Gianni Toniolo provide a much-needed, up-to-date economic history of Italy from unification in 1861 to the present.

About the Author

Carlo Bastasin is a Senior Fellow and Professor of European Economic Governance at the LUISS University in Rome and a non-resident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington. Gianni Toniolo was Senior Fellow at LUISS University School of European Political Economy; Professor of Economic and History Emeritus at Duke University; Research fellow at CEPR.