Tag: economic history
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Part 7 of Economic and Social History of Late Modern Malta
This is part 7 in the lecture series titled An Introduction to the Economic and Social History of Late Modern Malta. This lecture addresses the end of Malta’s war-dependent economy and the change to sustained and prolonged economic growth. The other lectures are listed below: This is the sixth lecture in the series An Introduction…
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An Introduction to the Economic and Social History of Late Modern Malta (Part 4)
This the third lecture in the series titled “An Introduction to the Economic and Social History of Late Modern Malta”. This lecture is about Paul Caruana Galizia’s work which is one of the latest and most important works in the economic historiography about late Modern Malta. Photo of Marsovin factory provided by Marsovin. Lecture 1…
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An Introduction to the Economic and Social History of Late Modern Malta (Part 2)
This is the second part of the series “An Introduction to the Economic and Social History of Late Modern Malta“. In this lecture I describe the primary sources of the period. Mark CamilleriWebsite Editor Historian and Publisher
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An Introduction to the Economic and Social History of Late Modern Malta
I’m uploading a series of lectures on the economic and social history of Late Modern Malta. These lectures provide a basic introduction and the foundational works required for an understanding of the economic and social history of Malta from 1800 to the present day. Mark CamilleriWebsite Editor Historian and Publisher
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A history of feudal and rent-seeking economics
If the Labour government follows through on reclaiming Manoel Island from MIDI after its failure to fulfil contractual obligations, it would mark the end of a deal that stands as a textbook example of Malta’s long history of rent-seeking by some of the country’s most powerful business families. The public land deal by which MIDI’s…
