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Thomas Piketty A groundbreaking examination of austerity's dark intellectual origins. For …

We present new evidence about the long‐run relationship between state capacity–the fiscal
and administrative power of states–and economic performance. Our database is novel and …

In this paper we investigate the link between government debt-to-GDP ratio and real per
capita income growth in Italy over 1861-2009. We model our regression analysis on a …

Since the mid-1990s, Italy has made significant steps towards federalism, decentralizing
political, fiscal and administrative powers, also by means of a major constitutional reform …

In this fresh, unfamiliar, and sometimes surprising picture of modern Italy, history is refracted
through the prism of the nation's consumer culture. What were Italians eating and drinking …

We analyze the displacement effect within a multivariaterevenue-expenditure model of
government growth, based on along historical dataset, for Italy. Our long-run analysisshows …

This paper offers a new theory and empirical testing of long-term trends of public
expenditures for five countries. While Wagner's Law would imply an exponential growth …

We test the``war of attrition''models of fiscalperformance on the sample of Italian
governments from1948 to 1994. We control for conditioning phenomena, like government …

The aim of this article is to assess the empirical evidence of the nexus between public
expenditure and inflation for the Mediterranean countries during the period 1970-2009 …

3. Il compito immenso e il poco (molto) che si riuscì a fare. La legge Casati 4. Le difficoltà
nell'attuazione della legge Casati. I tanti condizionamenti e l'ottica dello Stato liberale non …