Talk:Economic history of Italy

Discrimination against Southern Italy

The article follows the common discrimination against southern Italy we had during the last 150 years, after the conquered of the whole peninsula by the House of Savoy. You should not write this kind of discrimination in 2013. I will add information with scholars' books references when I will have time to do that.--AlexanderFreud (talk) 16:01, 25 January 2013 (UTC)

Some problems wih this page

IMO this page may be improved by reviewing these points:

• doing away with overlydramatic statements and using more sober language, e.g., After 1600 Italy experienced an economic catastrophe.
• Addressing several factual errors, such as:

• generalization of high standards of living during 1600; economyc backwardness by 1870 (inconsistent with what is reported below for the same period)
• Italy did not exist before 1861
• "The unification of Italy in 1861–70 broke down the feudal land system that had survived in the south since the Middle Ages" - it did not happen until much later.
• fascism: "number of mixed entities were formed, whose purpose was to bring together representatives of the government and major businesses" - poor although brief description of the corporatist model
• "After the end of World War II, Italy was in rubble" - not all of it.
• "fragile democracy threatened by the NATO occupation forces" - the threat is a POV, the occupation by NATO never existed (BTW, NATO was only established in 1948)
• end of aid through the Plan could have stopped the recovery - who said this?
• the causal linik of the economic growth of the 50s to the Korean war - source that, far fetched
• the presentation of the economic trajectory of the 70s-80s is highly confused
• "Italy was then re-overtaken by all countries due to currency value change." - causal pathway is false
• "high tax rates and red tape caused the country to stagnate between 2000 and 2008" - causal pathway to be revisited, not supported by quality literature and is indeed contradicted by the cited 2017 paper by Pellegrino and Zingales (excessive emphasys given to this, there is much broader analysis on productivity)
• "the liberalisation of the economy meant that Italy was able to enter the EMU" - causal pathway questionable

• Improving certain statements, e.g., "The Italian economy has had very variable growth". (which country did not experience that?); the overtaking of the UK is mentioned twice and there is too much emphasis on these news headlines (overtaking this, that); "Italy's economy in the 21st century has been mixed, experiencing both relative economic growth and stagnation, recession and stability" - again which country did not experience that?
• Language: the para on Cassa per il Mezzogiorno contains language errors
• the final section contains scattered and outdated statistics and would need a complete revision.

The italian version of this page may offer inputs. Tytire (talk) 17:24, 17 June 2023 (UTC)