Economics 315

Florence

Afternoon walking tour of Florence, including the Uffizi Gallery, the Duomo, and Pontevecchio.

Discussion Articles

Abulafia, David, “Southern Italy and the Florentine Economy, 1265-1370,” Economic History Review 34 (August 1981), 377-388. 

Cowan, Tyler, and Alex Tabarrok, "An Economic Theory of Avant-Garde and Popular Art or High and Low Culture," Southern Economic Journal 67 (October 2000), 232-253.

Hughes, Donald J., “Medieval Florence and the Barriers to Growth Revisited,” Capitalism, Nature, Socialism, 9 (September 1998), 133-140.

McLean, Paul D. and John F. Padgett "Was Florence a Perfectly Competitive Market? Transactional Evidence from the
Renaissance," Theory and Society, Vol. 26, No. 2/3, (Apr. - Jun., 1997), pp. 209-244.

Florence, a Masterpiece of the Commercial Revolution