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European Economic Development and the Environment

In: Italy in a European Context

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  • Luca Mocarelli

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My analysis takes as a starting point the somewhat provocative theory of Jared Diamond as outlined in his book Guns, Germs and Steel, in which the scholar proffers a key to a long-term assessment of the differences between the various parts of the world.1 According to Diamond, what happened after the end of the last Ice Age (about 11,000 B.C.) is of paramount importance, particularly after the “invention” of agriculture around 8,500 B.C. For this was actually the first great socioeconomic revolution in the history of mankind because we passed from the world of nomadic hunter-gatherers to that of permanent settlements. It was the huge increase in available food resources made possible by farming and animal husbandry that permitted an innovation that changed the course of history — the birth of the cities.2

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  • Luca Mocarelli, 2015. "European Economic Development and the Environment," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Donatella Strangio & Giuseppe Sancetta (ed.), Italy in a European Context, chapter 7, pages 154-176, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-137-56077-3_7
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-137-56077-3_7
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