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Far from the passive property. An entrepreneurial landowner in the nineteenth century Papal State
No full textRelying on various primary sources, this article aims to explore the experience of the Roman Prince Alessandro Torlonia as entrepreneurial landowner during the nineteenth century. The analysis of two specific cases in different areas of the Papal State will be used to identify the peculiar features of Torlonia agrarian entrepreneurship that granted him high profitability. His experience is even more interesting if considered in the light of the backward context of the country, on the economic periphery of Europe; at the same time it suggests a reconsideration of the consolidated vision of absolute immobilism of the area
Reassessing the role and identity of the European Investment Bank
No full textThe article is the first of a special section focused on one of the EEC/EU’s main financial institutes, namely the European Investment Bank (EIB). It investigates precisely the vision and action of the EIB, and the investments it allocated to various areas and sectors from its foundation to the present day. The transformation of its role corresponding to changing European strategies – according to the economic cultures and political priorities that inspired them over time – is also analysed, in an overall reassessment of the role and of the very identity of EIB
Introduzione
No full textIl volume raccoglie il diario inedito dell'ultimo anno a washington dell'ambasciatore italiano Alberto Tarchiani
The Managerial Revolution in Italy: the Managers of IRI (1945-1970)
No full textThis paper aims to analyze the managers of IRI (Istituto per la Ricostruzione Industriale) - the major State-owned industrial holding and the most prominent example of managerial capitalism in the history of Italian economy - in the significant period of the so-called Golden Age.
The paper is founded on a data-set concerning top and middle managers (education, military service, political and religious affiliations, recruitment and career), built intertwining a multiplicity of original sources. Based on empirical evidence, it aims to get a deeper understanding of some of the crucial issues in the identity and action of SOEs managers, mainly the complex relationships with the government and the political milieu
Quel capitalista per ricchezza principalissimo : Alessandro Torlonia principe, banchiere, imprenditore nell'Ottocento romano
No full textIl volume ricostruisce la storia di Alessandro Torlonia, uno dei maggiori banchieri dell’Ottocento italiano e finanziere di statura europea. La ricerca si basa su una pluralità di fonti inedite italiane e straniere, ed analizza le diverse attività intraprese da Torlonia, per decenni figura di primo piano nella gestione delle finanze pubbliche pontificie; ne mette in luce le qualità di entrepreneurhsip espresse anche in altri settori, come quello della gestione dei possedimenti fondiari. Il preminente approccio di business history è integrato da una lettura del ruolo sociale e della sfaccettata personalità di Torlonia, esponente di primo piano dell’aristocrazia romana, mecenate munifico e collezionista. La vicenda è inserita in un’attenta ricostruzione del contesto economico-finanziario, sociale e istituzionale della Roma ottocentesca, e non mancano i richiami al clima culturale e politico del Risorgimento, di cui Torlonia è osservatore attento e partecipe.The first biography of Alessandro Torlonia, the greatest banker and entrepreneur in the Rome of 19th century: financial innovation, European perspective, patronage of the arts were the key elements of this leading character of the “Haute Banque”. Based on the original family archives, almost unexplored
Alessandro Torlonia tra mito e scandalo
No full textNella Roma Ottocentesca il banchiere e principe Alessandro Torlonia è un personaggio tra mito e scandalo. I grandi successi conseguiti come operatore finanziario, i network internazionali di cui fa parte, i segni visibili della recente nobilitazione della famiglia, l'influenza esercitata presso la Curia ne fanno l'oggetto di numerose pubblicazioni italiane e straniere, sino ad entrare in alcuni dei più celebri romanzi del tempo, come il Conte di Montecristo. Il saggio rintraccia tali segni sulla base di documenti originali
The European enterprise as a key-player in the European economic model: a historical perspective
No full textThe enterprise is a key player in the European economic model. An analysis in historical perspective can contribute to better define its identity, helping the implementation of effectual industrial policies during the actual of economic crisis and political divergences within the Union.
In my article I present the results of a collective research, still in progress, aiming to identify the native characters - a kind of genetic code - of the European enterprise since the end of 19th century. Despite the differences between the various models of capitalism, we attempt to verify the existence of at least four genetic traits common to the sample of firms studied in major European countries. In our research hypothesis, the “genetic code” of European enterprise is influenced by at least one or more of these four elements:
A) Contractual cooperation, cartels and concerted practices.
B) Personal or family business, determining the diffusion and relevance of small and medium firms.
C) Active role of substitutive factors: the State and the universal bank.
D) Strong influence of the workers and their organization
Alessandro Torlonia. The Pope's Banker
No full textThis book provides a vivid biography of a towering Italian banker, pioneer and entrepreneur. It weaves the entrepreneurial ventures of Alessandro Torlonia (1800-1886) through the narratives of business and politics in the Nineteenth century, the growth of European financial markets and the decline of Papal power during the Italian Risorgimento. The discussion is founded in rigorous historical research using original sources such as the Archivum Secretum Vaticanum papers and other official documents; the archives of the Torlonia family, and of the Rothschild bank in Paris; memoirs; correspondences, and newspapers. Through this book readers learn that Alessandro Torlonia was a man of many faces, who was one of the most complex and influential characters of Italian economic life in the nineteenth century. Felisini also provides an expert critique of the financial history of the papacy: an area of heightened interest given the notoriety of relations between the Holy See and its bankers in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Focal topics such as the history of European elites and the history of European financial markets will have an interdisciplinary appeal for scholars and researchers
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