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Economic policy and development in Austrian Lombardy, 1815-1859

Pages 35-58 | Published online: 19 Aug 2010

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  • Angeli . Proprietari 77
  • Fichier . Die Wirtschaft 125 – 6 . According to the respective sources (Österreichisches Staatsarchiv, Finanzarchiv Präsidium) this was a decision of the central government while the local authorities' opinions were contradictory. The eventual decision was based on considerations about how to stimulate the future potential of the silk sector to generate further tax income
  • Angeli . Proprietari 77
  • Pichler . Die Wirtschaft 151 Again this was a decision of the central government after having received contradictory signals from Lombardy. In that context see for the aspect of technical innovation
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  • Pichler . Die Wirtschaft 287 based on the data supplied by the Tafeln zur Statistik der österreichischen Monarchie, Table 'Zoll-Gefäll'
  • Greenfield . Economics and Liberalism 267
  • Salvia , S. La . 1977 . Giornalismo lombarde: gli 'Annali universali di statistica' (1824-1844) Rome Greenfield, Economics and liberalism. See also
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  • Gioia , M. 1819 . Sidle manifatture nazionali e tariffe dazlarie , Milan : Discorso popolare . For the text that did most to launch the debate see
  • Rath , R. John . 1969 . The Provisional Austrian Regime in Lombardy-Venetia 1814-1815 , Austin and London : University of Texas Press . For this, an excellent account still remains
  • Pichler . Die Wirtschaft 86 – 122 . For a fuller discussion see
  • Pichler . Die Wirtschaft 140 – 63 . The research is almost exclusively based on material in the Archivio di Stato di Milano and the Österreichisches Staatsarchiv (Hofkammerarchiv and Finanzarchiv)
  • Pichler , R. 1997 . 'Politica commerciale, economia e rapporti di vicinato tra l'Italia e la monarchia asburgica, 1815-1914' . Società e Storia , 20 : 48 – 85 . Again, the research is largely based on archive sources (Archivio di Stato di Milano and Österreichisches Staatsarchiv (Haus-, Hof- und Staatsarchiv))
  • The issue of banking and industrial development in Lombardy is most comprehensively discussed by Levati, La nobiltà del lavoro.
  • Bernardello , A. 1996 . La prima ferrovia fra Venezia e Milano: storia della imperial-regia privilegiata strada ferrata ferdinandea lombardo-veneta (1835-1852) Venice The most comprehensive analysis of railway building in Lombardy is
  • Pichler . Die Wirtschaft 247 – 63 . Since it covers only the period of private ownership this work does not deal with the interesting period of neoabsolutist rule. For the latter see
  • Crafts , N.F.R. 1983 . 'Gross national product in Europe 1870-1910: some new estimates' . in Explorations in Economic History , 20 : 387 For an explanation of this techniques see
  • Pammer , Michael . 1997 . 'Proxy data and income estimates: the economic lag of Central and Eastern Europe' . Journal of Economic History , 57 : 448 – 55 . Crafts used this approach to estimate income for countries where the data for the national income accounting method is poor, employing a sample of countries with good income estimates as the dependent variable in the regression. The technique was also employed by Good, 'The economic lag'. Yet it did generate intense debate: see
  • Good , D. F. 1997 . 'Proxy data and income estimates: reply to Pammer' . Journal of Economic History , 57 : 456 – 63 .
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