Hermen Anglada-Camarasa: De Barcelona a París, 1871-1904

Estudi d’un període concret de l’artista català Hermenegild Anglada-Camarasa, els anys1871-1904. Són els anys de formació de l’artista a Catalunya, passant per Barcelona, Arbúcies i Vilanova i la Geltrú. També viatja a París i continua la formació allà, on contacta amb moviments artístics europeus i internacionals, es consolida la seva figura i comença a tenir força reconeixement a nivell internacional

Passive modernization? the new human development index and its components in Italy’s regions (1871-2007)

The article presents and discusses estimates of social and economic indicators for Italy’s regions in benchmark years roughly from Unification to the present day: life expectancy, education, GDP per capita at purchasing power parity, and the new Human Development Index (HDI). A broad interpretative hypothesis, based on the distinction between passive and active modernization, is proposed to account for the evolution of regional imbalances over the long-run. In the lack of active modernization, Southern Italy converged thanks to passive modernization, i.e., State intervention: however, this was more effective in life expectancy, less successful in education, expensive and as a whole ineffective in GDP. As a consequence, convergence in the HDI occurred from the late XIX century to the 1970s, but came to a sudden halt in the last decades of the XX century.