Overview
- Analyzes the impact of the colonial state on agriculture, manufacturing, and trade in Malta
- Investigates the post-colonial transition to protectionism and state control of the Maltese economy
- Explores the liberalization and globalization of Malta's economy from 1987 onward
- Overviews Malta's contemporary economic institutions and argues for more inclusive growth
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Economic History (PEHS)
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This book provides the first wide-ranging account of the Maltese economy in the modern era, from colonialism to European Union membership. It sets arguments about growth and development, and the impact and legacy of colonization, against detailed histories of agriculture, manufacturing and trade, and different economic policy regimes. It is based on volumes of newly collected archival evidence and the latest thinking in economic history. By extending coverage up to the present, the book explains how one of the world's smallest nation-states achieved lasting economic development, quintupling its per capita income level since 1970, when many other postcolonial and advanced economies stagnated.
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About the author
Paul Caruana Galizia is a Marie Curie Early-Career Fellow in the Institute of Economic History at the Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany. He is also the author of Mediterranean Labor Markets in the First Age of Globalization.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Economy of Modern Malta
Book Subtitle: From the Nineteenth to the Twenty-First Century
Authors: Paul Caruana Galizia
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Economic History
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-56598-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-56597-6Published: 22 December 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-56598-3Published: 20 December 2016
Series ISSN: 2662-6497
Series E-ISSN: 2662-6500
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 384
Number of Illustrations: 53 b/w illustrations
Topics: Economic History, European Economics, Regional/Spatial Science