Agriculture and credit in Italy between 1800 and 1900: an initial economic-institutional analysis on «Monti frumentari»
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Abstract
Access to credit is one of the essential elements to support the growth and subsequent development of an agrarian system. This research aims to start an economic-institutional reflection on the «Monti frumentari», identifiable as possible first forms of rural microcredit, to analyse the causes that prevented the birth of a stable agrarian credit in liberal Italy.
Keywords
- Agriculture
- Microcredit
- Wheat
- Monti frumentari
- Development
