ID:
1000922
Duration (hours):
36
CFU:
6
SSD:
Economic History
Located in:
REGGIO DI CALABRIA
Url:
Economics/Percorso generico Year: 1
Year:
2025
The course aims to achieve the following training objectives, expressed according to the Dublin Descriptors:
1. (knowledge and understanding) advanced knowledge and ability to understand the main notions on the evolution of the economic history of Southern Italy framed in the national context and to understand the economic dynamics linked to the most recent developments (globalization, economic crisis, Covid and energy crisis).
2. (applying knowledge and understanding) ability to understand and deal with current problems relating to the economy of the Mezzogiorno, adopting a historical type of perspective.
3. (making judgements) ability to interpret and integrate data and information in order to make autonomous judgements on the economy of the Mezzogiorno.
4. (communication skills) ability to communicate knowledge and information relating to the subject, being able to illustrate the processes that led to their acquisition to specialist and non-specialist interlocutors.
5. (learning skills) ability to continue learning in a self-managed or autonomous way based on one's professional development.
Knowledge of the basic concepts of economic theory and the main Italian historical events from Unification to today
Lectures, seminars, exercises
The rating is in thirtieths: from 18/30 to 30/30 with honors, according to the following scheme:
30 - 30 with honors: complete, in-depth and critical knowledge of the course topics, excellent language skills, complete and original interpretative ability, full ability to independently apply the knowledge acquired;
26 - 29: in-depth knowledge of the course topics, good language skills, effective interpretative ability and the ability to independently apply the knowledge acquired;
24 - 25: knowledge of the course topics with a good level of learning, decent language skills, correct interpretative ability, ability to correctly apply most of the knowledge acquired;
21 - 23: adequate knowledge of the course topics, but lack of mastery of them, more than sufficient language skills, interpretative ability, limited ability to independently apply the knowledge acquired;
18 - 20: basic knowledge of the main topics, basic knowledge of technical language, sufficient interpretative ability, ability to apply the basic knowledge acquired; Insufficient: insufficient knowledge of the course topics.
V. Daniele, Il paese diviso. Nord e Sud nella storia d'Italia, Rubbettino, Soveria Mannelli, 2019.
C. Petraglia, S. Prezioso, Nord e Sud. Divari economici e politiche pubbliche dall'euro alla pandemia, Carocci, Roma 2023.
Topics of the course:
North/South divide at the unification (1861).
Postunification politics. Brigandage.
The Southern Question.
The emergence of dualism. A long gap.
The South in the fascist period.
The extraordinary intervention. The Cassa per il Mezzogiorno.
Growth and gaps.
Causes of the underdevelopment of the South.
The double shock: euro and globalisation.
The long crisis and austerity.
Pandemic and regional gaps.