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Pierluigi
Ciocca (Ed.)
L'economia mondiale nel Novecento
The World Economy in the
Twentieth Century
1998, pp. 154
During
the twentieth century the world economy has experienced an
exceptional combination of instability, change and continuity.
Cyclical crises and inflation, the rise and decline of communism,
the alternation of new and old international powers, and the
rise and decline of Keynesianism have all accompanied an unprecedented
improvement in mankind's material well-being and momentous
transformations in technology, modes of production and the
role of the State. Yet the century is ending much as it began,
that is, beset by a fundamental and on-going contradiction.
The contrast between wealth and poverty and between poverty
and dissipation of resources is acute: the market economy
regulation has failed to overcome disparities between nations,
classes, and individuals. In his introductory essay, Pierluigi
Ciocca clearly identifies the essential features of this set
of radical changes and unresolved problems. The volume's other
essays comprise critical commentaries by renowned historians
and economists such as Sylos Labini, Toniolo, Wallerstein,
De Cecco, Hobsbawm, Caracciolo, Bairoch, Lunghini, Alvi, Kindleberger,
Nardozzi, Arrighi, and Nolte. The volume does not intend to
draw a balance between the incommensurate positive and negative
elements of this century's economy, nor does it make useless
and impossible forecasts: it simply offers food for thought
to non-specialist readers pondering the economic prospects
of the twenty-first century.
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Pierluigi
Ciocca is
the general vice-director of the Bank of Italy.
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