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The market structure of the Italian economy has undergone a profound change during the last quarter of a century. Up to the time of the First World War the industrial and commercial organization in this country, although not free from the tendency towards the big enterprise in certain branches and from restrictive practices, was fundamentally characterized by a great number of units of moderate size, and consequently by a relative high degree of competition.
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The only official publication giving relevant, though incomplete and not quite accurate, data with regard to the subject is:
Ministero per la Costituente, Rapporto della Commissione Economica, Industria, vols. I, II, Roma, 1947.
The following two books also contain statistical information, but no references to sources is made in them:
Grifone, Il capitale finanziario in Italia, Torino, 1945.
Confederazione Generale del Lavoro, Struttura dei monopoli industriali in Italia, Roma, 1949;
The economic aspects of monopoly and cartels are dealt with in: Pantaleoni, Alcune osservazioni sui sindacati e sulle leghe. Included in: Erotemi di economia, Bari, 1925.
Dagnino, I cartelli industriali, Torino, 1928.
Mantelli e Roggero, I consorzi per la vendita dei prodotti industriali, Milano, 1932.
De Falco, I sindacati industriali, Napoli, 1933.
Barone, I sindacati industriali. Included in: Nuova collana di economisti, Torino, 1934.
Battista, Le coalizioni di imprese, Roma, 1934.
Pitigliani, ‘The Development of Italian Cartels’, in Journal of Political Economy, 1940.
Vito, Der heutige Stand der Lehre der Unternehmerzusammenschlüsse in Italien. Included in: Kartell-Rundschau, 1933.
Vito, I sindacati industriali, Milano, 1939. German edition, Jena, 1940.
Spanish edition, Barcelona, 1941.
Vito, Zur neueren Entwicklung der Kartelle in Italien. Included in: Kartell-Rundschau, 1941.
For the legal aspects of regulation of cartels and monopoly:
Scheggi, Contributo allo studio dei consorzi volontari, Napoli, 1934. Franceschelli, I consorzi industriali, Padova, 1935.
Salandra, Il diritto delle unioni di imprese, Padova, 1935.
Ascarelli, Le unioni di imprese. Included in: Rivista di Diritto Commerciale, 1935.
Sigiavi, In tema di cartelli e di consorzi. In Rivista di Diritto Commerciale, 1937.
Caputo, I consorzi di imprese, Milano, 1939.
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Vito, F. (1954). Monopoly and Competition in Italy. In: Chamberlin, E.H. (eds) Monopoly and Competition and their Regulation. International Economic Association Coference Numbers 1–50. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-08434-0_3
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