Marco Martinez

My current research focuses on the development of the Italian economy since 1815, with particular emphasis on the evolution of inventive activity and human capital, also in relation to major industrial and development policies, such as those related to early infrastructure development and post-World War II international reconstruction aid. My current position is part of the PRIN project "Industrialization in France and Britain: a new comparative economic history (1700-1913)", and contributes to a comparative history of one of the main drivers of industrialization in Britain and its delayed development in France and the rest of Europe: human capital accumulation (literacy). Finally, I am particularly interested in the history of ancient Mediterranean societies and their interaction with inequalities and institutional change. I interact with philological and archaeological approaches.