Giulia Mancini, Gender discrimination and intra-household inequality in rural Italy, 1920s-1930s, p. 265-286
Giacomo Domini, Innovation and business performance in Italy, 1913-1936, p. 287-330
Ugo M. Gragnolati, Luigi Moretti, Roberto Ricciuti, Early railways and industrial development: Local evidence from Sardinia in 1871–1911, p. 331-368
Francesco Chiapparino, Gabriele Morettini, Winners and losers in Italian agriculture of the 1930s. A contribution to the analysis of the interwar crisis, p. 369-397

Giuliana Freschi, A social elevator? Occupational mobility in Italy, 1950-1970, p. 131
Alexander Klein, Karl Gunnar Persson, Paul Sharp, Populism and the first wave of globalization: Evidence from the 1892 US presidential election, p. 163
Roberto Ganau, Governing conflict. Law and industrial relations in Italy, 1945-1980, p. 203
Francesco Scalone, Reconstructing the demographic evolution of Piedmont from 1612 to 1900, p. 233

Jochen Streb, Patent law and economic perfomance, p. 3
Leonardo Ridolfi, Understanding pre-industrial wages and incomes: A reassessment of the evidence and new interpretations based on France and Italy, p. 27
Gaspare Tortorici, Irregular citizens: Internal migrations and anti-urbanism in Italy (1955-1965), p. 63

SURVEYS AND DEBATES
Paolo Di Martino, New directions in the history of Italian capitalism: A survey of business history on Italy, 1998-2021, p. 89

HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INDEX
Nicola Amendola, Giacomo Gabbuti, Giovanni Vecchi, The use of composite indices in economic history: A long-standing, not silly debate, p. 115
Branko Milanovic, On income, education and freedom: A few comments on Prados' Augmented Human Development Index, p. 119
Leandro Prados De La Escosura, On well-being and freedom: A response to Branko Milanovic, p. 125

Pierluigi Ciocca, Gianni Toniolo and the Rivista di Storia Economica, p. 10

SPECIAL SECTION: THE ITALIAN ECONOMY UNDER FASCISM (PART II)

Brian A'Hearn, Giacomo Gabbuti, Introduction, p. 265
Marianna Astore, Italian industry under fascism. What we have learned from business history, p. 271
Marco Bertilorenzi, Valerio Cerretano, Mario Perugini, Between Constraints and Opportunities: Big Italian Business and Autarky, 1934-1943, p. 303
Fernando Salsano, The fascist housing regime: policies, market and social wellbeing, p. 337

SURVEY AND DEBATES
Brian A'Hearn, Carlo Ciccarelli, Francesco Cinnirella, Anna Missiaia, Michelangelo Vasta, Presentation of the new section Surveys and Debates (S&D), p. 367
Jan Luiten van Zanden, A silly debate? Review of Leandro Prados de la Escosura, Human Development and the Path to Freedom. 1870 to the Present, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge (UK), 2022, p. 369
Leandro Prados de la Escosura, A not-so-silly debate! Response to Jan Luiten van Zanden's review, p. 377
Jan Luiten van Zanden, From subjectivity to inter-subjective standards?, p. 383
Leandro Prados de la Escosura, From subjectivity to inter-subjectivity? Not quite so!, p. 385

Joel Mokyr, Incentives, Institutions, and Industrialization: A Prelude to Modern Economic Growth, p. 127
Maria Stella Chiaruttini, Telling figures: a new dataset on the regional origins of Italian Central Banking and the rise of piedmontese finance before 1861, p. 147
Giacomo Zanibelli, Vito Ricci, Literacy and Land Inequality in Italy During Fascism. A Geographic- Historical Analysis, p. 185

OCCASIONAL CONTRIBUTIONS IN MEMORY OF STEFANO FENOALTEA
Paolo Di Martino, At the Heart of Fenoaltea's Narrative: Italy and the International Financial Market (1880s-1913), p. 213
Roberto Bonfatti, Giovanni Facchini, Alexander Tarasov, Gian Luca Tedeschi, Cecilia Testa, The «Baccarini Law» Railways (1880-1890): Their Long-Run Sectoral Economic Impact, p. 233

Brian A'hearn, Carlo Ciccarelli, Francesco Cinnirella, Anna Missiaia, Michelangelo Vasta, Editors' Note, p. 3

SPECIAL SECTION: KNOWLEDGE DIFFUSION AND THE EMERGENCE OF MODERN ECONOMIC GROWTH
Francesco Cinnirella, Paul Sharp, Introduction, p. 7
Kelly Morgan, Joel Mokyr, Cormac Ó Gráda, Could Artisans Have Caused the Industrial Revolution?, p. 11
Nicholas Ford, Kristin Ranestad, Paul Sharp, Leaving Their Mark: Using Danish Student Grade Lists to Construct a More Detailed Measure of Historical Human Capital, p. 29
Raffaele Danna, Elaboration and Diffusion of Useful Knowledge in the Long Run: The Case of European Practical Arithmetic (13th-16th Centuries), p. 57

ARTICLES
Richard A. Goldthwaite, Music: A Growth Industry in Renaissance Italy, p. 85

CONTRIBUTIONS IN MEMORY OF STEFANO FENOALTEA
Alberto Baffigi, Giovanni Vecchi, Introduction: Economics, History and Economic History in Stefano Fenoaltea's Cliometrics, p. 107
Ignazio Visco, In Honour of Stefano Fenoaltea (1943-2020), p. 109
Deirdre Nansen McCloskey, The Fenoaltea Method: How Science Actually Advances, p. 115

Roberto Pezzuto, The Age Distribution of the Labour Force as Evidence of Prior Production Movements: The Italian Data for 1911 and the Long Swing in Investment from Unification to the Great War, p. 249
Andrea Incerpi, Balancing the Current Account: Remittances and Tourism in Italy, 1861-1914, p. 269
Valentina Erasmo, The Foundational Decade to Amartya Sen's Capability Approach (1970-1980), p. 295

Mattia Viale, Edoardo Demo, Roberto Ricciuti, Economic Inequality in Early Modern Venice: Evidence from a New Archival Source, p. 95
Leonardo Ridolfi, The days they worked, the incomes they earned: new perspectives on work patterns and annual earnings in the French construction sector (1320-1850), p. 115
Deirdre Nansen McCloskey, The Statist Neo-Institutionalism of Acemoglu and Robinson, p. 151
William A. Allen, Economic Philosophies: Do They Still Matter?, p. 191

Errata corrige, p. 197

SPECIAL ISSUE ON LITERACY AND DEVELOPMENT: EDITORS' NOTES
Guest editors: Gabriele Cappelli, Carlo Ciccarelli

INTRODUZIONE
Gabriele Cappelli, Carlo Ciccarelli, Special Issue on Literacy and Development: Editors' Notes, p. 3

SAGGI
Sascha O. Becker, Cheongyeon Won, Jesus Speaks Korean: Christianity and Literacy in Colonial Korea, p. 7
Tomas Cvrcek, The Policy and the Reality of Public Schooling in 19 th Century Imperial Austria, p. 33
Brian A'hearn, Carlo Ciccarelli, Literacy in the Italian census of 1911: disaggregating the data, p. 63