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The work examines the troubled story of the Lanerossi spinning mill plant, a case of a company that experienced firsthand the negative effects of the economic policy of “extraordinary intervention of the State” for Southern Italy. Lanerossi's affair represents an interesting visual angle both for the analysis, at a macroeconomic level, of the policy of public intervention in the 1960s and, more generally, for reading, at the microeconomic level, an important and suffered chapter in the economic history of the prov...

The work examines the story of the Lanerossi spinning plant in Foggia, a case of a company that experienced the negative effects of the extraordinary intervention policies for the South of Italy and which, together with other industrial companies, arose in the same years and under the same auspices. a few years after its establishment, all the criteria on the basis of which the firm operated their strategic choices and the ways in which it implemented them had been questioned. The changes in public opinion and in ...

This paper focuses its attention on how, in a Southern Italian region like Puglia, the environment has been affected by infrastructural policies about the use of the water resource. The management and administration of the water resource and the rules about the use of public water and the pattern of socio-economic development were linked to the limited availability of this essential natural resource. The paper seeks to suggest that the use of water is dependent on peculiarities of social and cultural developme nt ...