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Economics 315

Thursday, January 12

Tuscany

tuscan countryside

Today we visit Civita di Bagnoregio and the Tuscan countryside near Orvieto. 

Readings

Botticini, Maristella, "Institutions, Information, and Markets in Fifteenth-Century Tuscany," Journal of Economic History 1999

Caferro, William, "City and Countryside in Siena in the Second Half of the Fourteenth Century," Journal of Economic History 1994

Galassi, Francesco, "An Econometric Model of Farm Tenures in Fifteenth Century Florence," Economica 1998

Galassi, Francesco, "Reassessing Mediterannean Agriculture: Stagnation and Growth in Tuscany, 1870-1914," Journal of Economic
History
1988

van Bavel, Bas, "Land and Lease Markets in Northwestern Europe and Italy, c. 1000-1800," 2005


Links

For more historical information on wages and prices in Italy and other regions consult the International Institute for Social History

civita

Information on Civita di Bagnoregio.

More on Civita from Professor Carol Watts, architectural historian.