Titolo Rivista HISTORY OF ECONOMIC THOUGHT AND POLICY
Autori/Curatori Stefano Solari
Anno di pubblicazione 2021 Fascicolo 2020/2
Lingua Inglese Numero pagine 18 P. 67-84 Dimensione file 106 KB
DOI 10.3280/SPE2020-002004
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After unification (1861) Italy had to face a badly integrated and oddly struc-tured financial system as well as some fragmented or lacking institutions. The fi-nancial position of the country was characterised by double deficit in public and external balance. That caused several monetary and financial difficulties. In par-ticular, monetary and banking institutions had to be step-by-step integrated and reorganised to support economic development in this new economic space. Luigi Luzzatti has been one of the main protagonists of this process of institution build-ing. Besides his commitment with trade tariff negotiation and a variety of initiative in industry and environmental protection, he dedicated a wide effort to monetary institutions. He was one of the main supporters of the "Latin Monetary Union", which lasted from 1865 to 1928 and contributed to reforms dealing with the prob-lem of the plurality of emission banks and of their control. Luzzatti also engaged in the development of "popular banks" to contribute to the structuring of the credit system from the bottom.
Keywords:Luigi Luzzatti, monetary system, financial unbalances, clearing houses
Jel codes:B26, B31, E42, F33
Stefano Solari, Luigi Luzzatti and the making of the Italian monetary system in "HISTORY OF ECONOMIC THOUGHT AND POLICY" 2/2020, pp 67-84, DOI: 10.3280/SPE2020-002004