Giacomo Gabbuti
Biographic Data
| ID | 1600541 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Giacomo Gabbuti |
| GIVEN NAMES | Giacomo |
| FAMILY NAME | Gabbuti |
| SIGNATURE | GABBUTI G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5098-8972 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Wars, Depression, and Fascism
This paper presents yearly estimates of income inequality in Italy from 1901 to 1950. By constructing dynamic social tables, we comprehensively assess inequality across all elements of Italian society and compare Italy with other countries over the same period. In a context of declining inequality across Europe, interwar Italy reveals a trajectory at odds with consolidated narratives: a sharp increase of inequality during World War I, a reversal …
Stability in search of explanations
“Non-competing social groups”? The long debate on social mobility in Italy (c. 1890–1960)
In the light of the recent literature on the intellectual history of inequality, this paper offers the first survey and a tentative classification of the Italian literature addressing issues related to social mobility, from the late 19th century to the “Economic Miracle” of the 1950s. During these decades, the foremost Italian economists and statisticians (among others, Pareto, Gini, Einaudi and Pantaleoni) worked on issues highly related to the …
Between Pareto and Gini
The Italian contribution to the emergence of modern inequality measurement has been, so far, mainly discussed from a methodological standpoint, or has focused on Vilfredo Pareto's theoretical contribution. This article offers a first survey of the Italian empirical literature on measuring inequality, from the earliest contributions in the 1890s to the end of the interwar decades, discussing the motivations and the sociopolitical milieu in which t…
The Italian economy
Between Pareto and Gini
The Italian contribution to the emergence of modern inequality measurement has been, so far, mainly discussed from a methodological standpoint, or has focused on Vilfredo Pareto's theoretical contribution. This article offers a first survey of the Italian empirical literature on measuring inequality, from the earliest contributions in the 1890s to the end of the interwar decades, discussing the motivations and the sociopolitical milieu in which t…
Stability in search of explanations
Between Pareto and Gini
The Italian contribution to the emergence of modern inequality measurement has been, so far, mainly discussed from a methodological standpoint, or has focused on Vilfredo Pareto's theoretical contribution. This article offers a first survey of the Italian empirical literature on measuring inequality, from the earliest contributions in the 1890s to the end of the interwar decades, discussing the motivations and the sociopolitical milieu in which t…
“Non-competing social groups”? The long debate on social mobility in Italy (c. 1890–1960)
In the light of the recent literature on the intellectual history of inequality, this paper offers the first survey and a tentative classification of the Italian literature addressing issues related to social mobility, from the late 19th century to the “Economic Miracle” of the 1950s. During these decades, the foremost Italian economists and statisticians (among others, Pareto, Gini, Einaudi and Pantaleoni) worked on issues highly related to the …
The Italian economy
Wars, Depression, and Fascism
This paper presents yearly estimates of income inequality in Italy from 1901 to 1950. By constructing dynamic social tables, we comprehensively assess inequality across all elements of Italian society and compare Italy with other countries over the same period. In a context of declining inequality across Europe, interwar Italy reveals a trajectory at odds with consolidated narratives: a sharp increase of inequality during World War I, a reversal …
Stability in search of explanations
Economics (5 works) · Inequality (3 works) · Italy: Economic History and Contemporary Issues (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Demographic economics (2 works) · Development economics (2 works) · Economic inequality (2 works) · Income, Poverty, and Inequality (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Mathematics (2 works)