Vi segnalo un interessante articolo di storia economica che cerca di analizzare e misurare gli effetti dell'introduzione della stampa sulla vita economica europea. Ovviamente la storia puņ dare spunti al presente...

Information technology and economic change: The impact of the printing press
Jeremiah Dittmar

Despite the revolutionary technological advance of the printing press in the 15th century, there is precious little economic evidence of its benefits. Using data on 200 European cities between 1450 and 1600, this column finds that economic growth was higher by as much as 60 percentage points in cities that adopted the technology.


http://www.voxeu.org/index.php?q=node/6092


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EBLA - International Center for Research on the Economics of Culture, Institutions and Creativity
NEXA Center for Internet & Society, Politecnico of Torino 

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