Abstract

The thirty years since Memoria and Ricerca appeared in the academic publishing coincide with the birth and development of the global economy and with the great changes in economic hierarchies at an international scale. This essay adopts a new global economic history perspective and focuses on the impact that those transformations had – or not – on economic history. By pointing out the profound change of the economic governance and the role of the new actors involved in shaping it nowadays, the essay explores the relevance of networks and connectivity to explain economic growth. Thus, this text address how economic history changed directions in the last thirty years, following the interpretative paths it has taken and underlying the reactions to the spread of globalization among the scholars who tried to deal with this evolving scenario.