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Marzano offers a critical interpretation of De Viti de Marco’s attitude towards the problem of the South of Italy. His free trade stance could and should have made an exception by welcoming protectionist policies to expand the flourishing agricultural sector.
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Luigi Luzzatti (1841–1927), who was Prime Minister of Italy for a year, from March 1910, played a leading role in the drafting of commercial treaties, supporting a protectionist policy for Italian industry.
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Friedrich List (1789–1846) criticized the classical theory of free trade, developing a protectionist theory based on arguments similar to those of the theory of infant industry.
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The Terni, the first steel mill in Italy, was set up at the end of the 1880s, and benefited from protective duties on steel imports.
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A. Gramsci (1975) Tesi di Lione. Resoconto dei Lavori del III Congresso del P. C. D’I. (Lione, 26 gennaio 1926) (Milan, Cooperativa editrice distributrice proletaria).
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The duty on wheat had been introduced in Italy with the general duty of 1887.
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The ‘battle for wheat’ was an autarchic measure launched by Mussolini in 1925 to replace the imports of wheat with domestic production.
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Marzano, F. (2016). Free Trade and the South of Italy. In: Antonio de Viti de Marco. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-53493-4_6
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