A Monetary History of Italy (Hardcover)

Foreword; Preface; 1. Structure, main themes and data of the monetary history; 2. Money growth and its determinants; 3. From political unification to 1913: creation of a new currency, multiplicity of banks of issue, banking legislations, monetary systems; 4. The First World War: inflation and stabilisation; 5. The 1920s and 1930s: foreign exchange policy and industrial and financial restructuring; 6. The Second World War and the 1947 stabilisation; 7. The fifties and sixties; 8. The seventies; 9. Italy in the eighties: towards Central Bank independence; 10. Conclusions; Bibliography; Index of authors; Subject Index.