Editorial: Routledge
Colección: Routledge Explorations in Economic History
Número de páginas: 208 págs.
Fecha de edición: 29-01-2024
EAN: 9780367677763
ISBN: 978-0-367-67776-3
Precio (sin IVA): 52,14 €
Precio (IVA incluído): 54,23 €
The Italian Renaissance played a crucial role in the formation of the modern world, with developments in culture, art, politics, philosophy, and science sitting alongside, and overlapping with, significant changes in production, forms of organization, trades, finance, agriculture, and population. Yet, it is usually argued that splendour in culture coexisted with economic depression and that the modernity of Renaissance culture coincided with an epoch of epidemics, famines, economic crisis, poverty, and destitution. This book examines both faces of the Italian economy during the Renaissance, showing that capital per worker was plentiful and productive capacity and incomes were relatively high.