Profile

Paolo Malanima was Professor of Economic History, Political Economy and Development Economics at the Magna Graecia University of Catanzaro (1994-2002 and 2013-21), and Director of the Institute for the Study of Mediterranean Societies (ISSM) of the National Research Council from September 2002 to November 2013. Since the academic year 2022-23, he has been Professor of European Economic History at Guangxi Normal University in Guilin (China). P.M. was President from 2000 to 2015 of the European School for Training in Economic and Social Historical Research of the Posthumus Institute (The Netherlands). Current research topics are the Italian economy in the long run and the history of energy consumption.

Publications

Recent publications

2022 The economy of Renaissance Italy, London-New York, Routledge.

2021 Famines, Demographic Crises and Climate in Italy 1650–1913, in P. Erdkamp, J. G. Manning, K. Verboven (eds.), Climate Change and Ancient Societies in Europe and the Near East, London, Palgrave-Macmillan, pp. 103-25.

2021 Past Growths: Pre-Modern and Modern, in “Journal of Global History”, 16, pp.  301–308.

2021 Energy, Productivity and Structural Growth. The Last Two Centuries, in “Structural Change and Economic Dynamics”, 58, pp. 54–65.

2020 The Limiting Factor: Energy, Growth, and Divergence, 1820–1913, in “Economic History Review”, 73, pp. 486–512.

2020 The Italian Economy Before Unification, in OXFORD RESEARCH ENCYCLOPEDIA, ECONOMICS AND FINANCE (oxfordre.com/economics). (c) Oxford University Press USA, 2020.

2018  Italy in the Renaissance: a Leading Economy in the European Context, 1350-1550, in “Economic History Review”, 71, pp. 3-30.