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The Roman Stock Exchange between the 19th and 20th Centuries. A History of the Italian Stock Market
No full textThe goal of the author, Donatella Strangio, consists of a serious and
documented analysis of the evolution of the city through a particular
observatory, that of the Stock Exchange, considered not so much as an
exclusive or absolute protagonist of the financial market, but rather as a
subject and object of the history, certainly economic, but also social and
political, of Rome and the Papal State. In addition, this singular observa tory, despite its atypical nature, seems to be valuable for the purposes of
an overall analysis of the behaviour of the local, national and international
executive and entrepreneurial classes.
Focussing on six key historical moments, the book starts from the
decline in the Pope’s temporal power—the aforementioned breach of
Porta Pia-: an epochal event, here linked to previous institutional and
social transformations as well as to the level of nineteenth–twentieth
century internal and external relations. As the subtitle of the work explic itly states (Structure and activity of the Rome stock market between the
nineteenth and twentieth centuries: a history of the Italian stockexchange),
the periodization adopted by the Author is also unconventional.
Starting from 1821—and nevertheless attentive to some important
pre-existing joints—Strangio examines the dynamics triggered by the
Commerce Regulations to clarify how the Roman stock exchange reacted
with respect to the Risorgimento and subsequently to the establishment
of the Kingdom of Italy. Embracing both the liberal period and that of
the “Belle époque”, the study finally reaches the First World War (as
the author recalls, it was with the Great War that the “long nineteenth
century” ended and a new system of contacts and of exchanges appeared,
thanks to which the Eternal City abandoned the welfare model that had
distinguished it most in previous centuries), and then proceeds to the
following decades. This long-term approach allows Donatella Strangio to
convincingly demonstrate how, far from confining it to a more restricted
space, becoming the Italian capital greatly facilitated the evolution of the urban development trends in Rome, finally released from the nefarious
effects of the papal public debt, from which it had suffered for some time,
aggravated by the “amputation” of the territory of the Patrimony of St.
Peter, after 1861. The rhythms imposed by being the capital influenced
all sectors and economic sectors of the city, from industry to the tertiary
sector.
Rome Capital City therefore traces the historical evolution of the
legislation that is the object of its investigation, the role of financial inter mediaries, and the functions of the decision-making and control bodies
that were part of the Rome Stock Exchange, in particular in light of the
consolidation of the British capitalist model and the Northern European
one.
An unusual picture emerges, a picture that portrays the complex finan cial mechanisms of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries but also the
broad world of Roman entrepreneurship, which, moreover, can benefit
from the in-depth analysis of stock exchanges between 1860 and 1870,
as well as share prices up to the Great War, the Depression and the
consolidation of the Fascist period
Political parties
No full textAcross the globe voters are losing faith in political parties - from both the left and the right. But why do we have parties and was there ever a time when politicians were independent and not bound by party rules?
Guests
Stephen Ingle - Professor History and Politics at Sterling University
David Karol - Associate Professor of Government and Politics at the University of Maryland
Paul Strangio - Associate Professor of Politics at Monash University
Publications
Title: The British Party System: An Introduction
Author: Stephen Ingle
Publisher: Routledge
Released: 31 Mar 2008
Title: Confusion : the making of the Australian two-party system
Author: Paul Strangio and Nick Dyrenfurth
Publisher: Melbourne University
Released: 31 Mar 2009
Title: "Political Parties in American Political Development" in The Oxford Handbook of American Political Development
Author: David Karol
Publisher: Oxford Handbook online
Released:30 Oct 2014
Credits
Presenter: Annabelle Quince
Producer: Annabelle Quinc
La "Centralità" di Roma capitale in un convegno a S. Miniato (27-31 ottobre 1992)
No full textobiettivo principale è quello di proporre sotto una luce particolare la "centralità" che Roma ha rivestito nel contesto italiano e, in certa misura, in quello europeo. Il periodo consderato è quello che segue l'esaurirsi dello scisma, il definitivo radicamento del papato nella città, il funzionamento a pieno regime del papato restaurato, dunque, la seconda metà del Quattrocento, prendendo come punto di arrivo l'evento traumatico del "sacco".main objective is to propose a particular light under the "" central "" that Rome has played in the Italian context and, to some extent, in the European market. The period consderato is that following the exhaustion of the schism, the ultimate roots of the papacy in the city, the full operation of the papacy restored, therefore, the second half of the fifteenth century, taking as a point of arrival of the traumatic event "" lot ".
Ad ultimos usque terrarum terminos in fide propaganda: un'introduzione
No full textLa Roma dell’epoca moderna fu una realtà istituzionale, topografica, architettonica e culturale
in sé creatrice e propagatrice: communis patria dei cristiani a fronte delle frammentazioni nazionali,
linguistiche e etniche, delle specificità dei diversi Ordini religiosi e dei plurimi retaggi
storici che sempre più contraddistinguevano le aree di diffusione della religione cattolica. Le
strutture di accoglienza dei pellegrini, gli organismi internazionali in cui venivano parlati numerosi
idiomi, i collegi, le accademie e le confraternite plurilinguistiche, stimolate dalla politica
delle indulgenze e delle conversioni, fecero progressivamente assumere a Roma, tra Quattro e
Seicento, una centralità che costituì il prerequisito simbolico indispensabile alla “giurisdizione
sul mondo” incarnata dall’opera di Propaganda Fide. In conseguenza di questo processo, nel
corso del Cinquecento Roma mutò stabilmente la sua struttura e la sua fisionomia: dall’epoca di
Giulio II a quella di Sisto V e Clemente VIII, l’aggregato di eredità medioevale, per diversi aspetti
caotico, si trasformò in un moderno tessuto urbano, che sarebbe durato, sebbene demograficamente
depauperato, fino alla città primo-ottocentesca
Italy-China Trade Relations. A Historical Perspective
No full textThis book examines the political connections and trade relations between Italy and China, with particular emphasis on the second half of the 19th century and the period following the Second World War. In recent years, economic relations between the two countries have intensified as a result of increasing exchange and trade agreements, with positive impacts on their political and diplomatic relations. By studying original public sources such as the Archives of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Bank of Italy and the Central State Archives in Rome, the author offers a historical perspective on the evolution of the two countries’ economic and political ties. The respective chapters address e.g. the role of international governmental authorities, the role of the Italian Bank of China, the impact of trade agreements and foreign investment projects, etc. Given its scope, the book will appeal to scholars of economic history and international economics, as well as political scientists and legal scholars with an interest in international diplomacy and trade agreements
Resilience in Papal Rome, 1656-1870. A City's Response to Crisis
No full textThis book analyses the evolution of the city of Rome, in particular, papal Rome, from the plague of 1656 until 1870 when it became the capital of the Kingdom of Italy. The author explores papal Rome as a resilient city that had to cope with numerous crises during this period. By focusing on a selection of different crises in Rome, the book combines cultural, political, and economic history to examine key turning points in the city's history. The book is split into chapters exploring themes such as diplomacy and international relations, disease, environmental disasters, famine, and public debt and unravels the political, economic, and social consequences of these transformative events. All the chapters are based on untapped original sources, chiefly from the State Archive in Rome, the Vatican Archives, the Rome Municipal Archives, the Ecole Francaise Library, the National Library, the Capitoline Library
Companies and firms in the “Italian Somalia” (1960-1970),
No full textSettlement, trust administration are important steps on the Italian experience in Africa, mainly in Somalia. Testimony of Italian and thread of these events were the creation of companies and their field of action.
The activities of private entrepreneurs should be directed to those areas that proved to be more suitable and convenient, so as to avoid unnecessary effort. It had to be equipped with sufficient financial means and directed by suitably aware of the economic problems that needed to be addressed.
The objective of this work, through the analysis of unpublished sources preserved in the Historical Archive of the Bank of Italy and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, will therefore be to identify the companies, their organization and their actual economic impact on the Somalia area. The work will examine the role played by the Italian firms and companies that were set up in the colonial period and were to continue their operations until Siad Barre’s takeover, when he immediately na
Imprese italiane in Argentina nel secondo dopoguerra. Competizione internazionale, globalizzazione e migrazione
No full textIl lavoro ricostruisce la storia del lavoro e dell'impresa italiana in Argentina dall'inizio del Novecento al 1970
Performance analysis of different SRAM cell topologies employing tunnel-FETs
No full textTunnel-FET is one of the most promising candidates to replace CMOS in low-power (LP) applications [1], featuring a sub-threshold slope (SS) below the 60mV/dec limit of MOSFET. However, the intrinsic asymmetry of TFETs, makes them good transistors only for a current flowing from drain to source and prevents their use as access transistors (AT) in the 6T SRAM cell. In this paper, we use TCAD mixed device-circuit simulations [2] of symmetric 6T SRAM cells, implemented with the n-type SiGe/Si TFET and p-type strained-Si TFET designed in [3] (Fig. 1) for VDD as low as 0.2V. The gate metal work-functions were set to match the off-current for LP applications (10pA/μm). For comparison purposes, both N- and P-MOS were also designed with the same double-gate SOI structure. The ID-VGS curves of the TFETs (Fig.2) show that the sub-60mV/decade region is confined to ultra low voltage regime (below 0.25 V) and that ambipolarity is very limited in these devices. ID(VDS) in Fig.3 show the lower output conductance of the TFETs w.r.t. to MOS. © 2014 IEEE
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