POCHE STORIE. A Concise Blog on Italian Economic History (Bol. N° 26)

With this post by Gabriele Cappelli (UAB) on his paper “Was Putnam wrong? The determinants of social capital in Italy around 1900” (Rivista di Storia Economica, a. XXXIII, n. 3, December 2017), we launch a new blog of short summaries from the latest issues of the Rivista di Storia Economica. Full article available here https://www.rivisteweb.it/doi/10.1410/89359.
This paper stems from the literature on the link between social capital and long-term regional economic growth in Italy. Rather than this relationship, though, I explore the determinants of the formation of social capital in the last quarter of the 19th century. Seguir leyendo…