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Enterprise and Society 2008 9(2):374-377; doi:10.1093/es/khn024
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Dario Gaggio. In Gold We Trust: Social Capital and Economic Change in the Italian Jewelry Towns
Princeton, NJ and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2007. xvi + 352 pp. ISBN 0-691-12697-6, $39.50 (cloth)
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In the mid-1970s, Italy was a sort of mystery for international observers. After the glorious years of the economic miracle, everything seemed to be going wrong. Both State-owned and large private corporations, which had made an outstanding contribution to the fast growth experienced in the 1950s and the 1960s, were hit by serious problems of governance (for the former, the inappropriate intervention of the political power while the latter operated under the weight of inefficient ownership) and seemed to be trapped in an insurmountable crisis. Social conflict in the factories was
Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi