Periods of economic change and public policies in Italy and Europe from the 1945 to the present period, under the influence of national and international institutions, markets, technologies, and organization of production. Types of local productive systems in Italy. Paths and policies of local and regional development. Specific themes on the Italian Recovery and Resilience Plan.
ATTENDING STUDENTS (in addition to classroom work, see section Altre Informazioni).
- Garofoli G. (2014), Economia e politica economica in Italia. Lo sviluppo economico italiano dal 1945 ad oggi. Milano: Franco Angeli, parte prima e cap. 1 della parte seconda
- Becattini G. e Bellandi, M. (2002) Forti Pigmei e deboli Vatussi. Considerazioni sull'industria italiana. In Economia Italiana, n. 3, pp. 587-618. Manoscritto in download dal moodle del corso
- ISTAT (2015) La nuova geografia dei sistemi locali, Roma, par 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 4.6 https://www.istat.it/it/files//2015/10/La-nuova-geografia-dei-sistemi-locali.pdf
- IRPET (2020). Il sistema produttivo toscano, Firenze, cap. 1, 2, 5 http://www.irpet.it/archives/56735
- Centro Studi Confindustria (2021). La manifattura al tempo della pandemia. La ripresa e le sue incognite. Roma Confindustria Servizi, Introduzione, Executive summaries 1, 2, capitolo 3. In download da
- Bellandi M., Giannini V., Iacobucci D. (2022). La Missione 1 del PNRR: quali opportunità da cogliere e barriere da superare? In L’Industria XLIII (2), pp. 227-244. Manoscritto in download dal moodle del corso oppure originale nelle risorse elettroniche della biblioteca
NON-ATTENDING STUDENTS
The reading list for attending students, as above, and in addition THREE texts
a) Coltorti F. (2017). Il declino della grande impresa privata e la resistenza dell’impresa pubblica in Italia negli ultimi 20 anni. In Bancaria, 4, pp. 14-21. Chiedere al docente o consultare originale in biblioteca.
b) A scelta fra:
Dallari F. (2007), Distretti turistici tra sviluppo locale e cooperazione interregionale. In Bencardino F., Prezioso M. (a cura), Geografia del turismo, Milano, McGraw-Hill, pp.194-218 LINK
Bellandi M. e Dei Ottati G. (2017), Origine e storia dei distretti industriali toscani. In AA.VV. La storia economica toscana fra Ottocento e Novecento, Pisa, Pacini Editore, 2016, pp. 105-147. Manoscritto in download dal moodle del corso o su richiesta al docente
Ninni A. (2021). Alle origini della crisi italiana: alcune note sui fattori economici e politici che l’hanno scatenata. In L’Industria XLII (4), pp. 649-682. Manoscritto in download dal moodle del corso oppure originale nelle risorse elettroniche della biblioteca
c) A scelta fra:
Banca d’Italia (2018). Turismo in Italia. Numeri e potenziale di sviluppo. Seminari e Convegni, n. 23, Roma, cap. 1,2,3 LINK
Camoletto, S., Bellandi, M. (2021), Forme di sviluppo locale «ibride»: il caso della provincia di Cuneo, in Stato e Mercato, n.123, 389-420. Manoscritto in download dal moodle del corso oppure originale nelle risorse elettroniche della biblioteca
Gallo R. (2022), Competitività e tentazioni di stato. In L’Industria XLIII (2), pp. 277-305. Manoscritto in download dal moodle del corso oppure originale nelle risorse elettroniche della biblioteca
Learning Objectives
- Knowledge: facts and themes of the economy and development of productive systems, within great contemporary tendencies in national and international institutions, markets, technologies; phases and cycles of the Italian economy from the 1945 to the great crisis of 2007-2008 and beyond, with specific regard to Italy, and Tuscany, and their productive systems, within the European context and the international division of labour, till the consideration of COVID-19 economic impacts and prospects f the PNRR
- Competence: know how to identify the variety of forms of organization and territorial embeddedness of contemporary productive systems; know how to identify the principles of competitiveness and development of such systems.
- Capacity: in general, the ability to apply micro and macroeconomic models to the interpretation of specific problems of productive systems, specifically, in the contemporary Italian and European context; the ability to draw presentations on characters and perspectives of local productive systems, the Italian and the European economy facing the contemporary great challenges.
The course aims at contributing to the cultural background of undergraduate students in Economics, in particular in LT EC, stimulating them to apply general models and concepts of micro and macroeconomics to facts and themes of real-world productive systems, in the context of the Italian and European economy. This is useful for a personalized approach to job placement, in particular under the profiles targeted by LT EC, but also for progress in university education, within graduate curricula in economics. The course is a useful introduction to concepts to be developed within specialistic courses of industrial economics and policy, industrial organization, economics and management of manufacturing and service systems.
Prerequisites
Basic notions of micro and macro economics
Teaching Methods
Lectures (34 hours), exercises (6 hours), seminars (6 hours); attending students elaborate presentations and some of them are discussed in classroom (8 hours)
Further information
ATTENDING students:
The presentations (see section "modalità di verifica dell'apprendimento") are selected by students (individually or in groups) within a list more precisely specified at lesson.
NON-ATTENDING students (only oral exam, NO presentation) SEE texts IN THE SECTION ABOVE ON TEXTS
Type of Assessment
ATTENDING students:
- written exams (following the format seen at "esercitazioni"), and presentations (see section "altre informazioni")
- written exams have marks on a 30 scale; the presentations can have a bonus adding to the marks of the written/oral exam between 1 and 3 points
- the written exam may be replaced by the oral exams on the same programme (see section "altre informazioni")
NON-ATTENDING students:
Oral examination (preliminary written answers) on the program (see section "altre informazioni")
Course program
FOR ALL STUDENTS
The Italian economy from 1945 to the present years
- The reconstruction 1945-1953
- The economic miracle 1953-1963
- The intensive development 1963-1970
- The economic crises in the 1970s
- Light industrialization, models of local development, and SMEs 1975-1983
- Restructuring of large manufacturing firms and industrial districts 1983-1992
- The Italian public budget and the European monetary system 1992-1999
- International economic integration: eurozone and globalization 1999-2007
- The great crisis and the economic policies in Europe and the other great world areas
- Problems of the Italian and European economies
- Models of interpretation of the Italian economic development 1945-1975
- The territorial structure of the Italian productive systems
- More detailed studies on the productive geography of Italy, the Italian industry facing the evolving international competitive challenges, before and in reaction to the pandemic; systems of SMEs, mechanisms, and performances of industrial districts, and local productive systems in Tuscany,
TOPICS FOR PRESENTATION BY ATTENDING STUDENTS based on individual and group work on themes and cases related to the course
FURTHER CONTENTS FOR NON-ATTENDING STUDENTS: texts on large and medium-sized firms in Italy, cases of Industrial districts in Tuscany; the light industrialization in Italy; touristic districts, local tourism systems; further interpretations on the Italian economic development
Sustainable Development Goals 2030
This course contributes to achieving the UN goals of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development