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Author-Name: Marco Santillo
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Author-Workplace-Name: Universitą di Salerno - Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Statistiche
Title: Riccardo Bachi: La «cittą assediata» come metafora dell'economia di guerra
(Riccardo Bachi: the «besieged city» as a metaphor of war economy)
Abstract: The Great War was the first modern mass war: more specifically, according to Einaudi, it was a war
rather of industries and materials, than men, which compared industrial equipment of different
belligerent countries.
Also in Italy, the war economy placed the State at the center of the economic system: the theoretical
construct of State «entrepreneur of war» arose exactly in this context thanks to Riccardo Bachi.
Multifaceted intellectual and expert in economics and statistics, Riccardo Bachi was able to understand,
in real-time, the long-term effects of the war economic system on the whole Italian industrial
structure.
His studies deeply explored all economic fields such as industry, agriculture, commerce and transport,
together with the banking and monetary issues.
The comparative statistical method together with the historical-economic approach, make the
study of this economist very interesting for the scientific community particularly interested in this
historical period, especially considering that he developed his investigations when the official sources
to economic science were partially available
Classification-JEL: N1, N4 
Keywords: guerra, statistica, indice
(war, statistics, index)
Journal: Il Pensiero Economico Italiano
Pages: 51-69
Volume: 24
Issue: 1
Year: 2016
File-URL: http://www.libraweb.net/articoli.php?chiave=201606301&rivista=63
Handle: RePEc:pei:journl:v:24:y:2016:1:5:p:51-69