The Economy of Modern Malta From the Nineteenth to the Twenty-First
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 his
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THE ECONOMY OF MODERN MALTA From the Nineteenth to the Twenty-First Century
Paul Caruana Galizia
Palgrave Studies in Economic History Series Editor Kent Deng London School of Economics London, United Kingdom
Palgrave Studies in Economic History is designed to illuminate and enrich our understanding of economies and economic phenomena of the past. The series covers a vast range of topics including financial history, labour history, development economics, commercialisation, urbanisation, industrialisation, modernisation, globalisation, and changes in world economic orders. More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/14632
Paul Caruana Galizia
The Economy of Modern Malta From the Nineteenth to the Twenty-First Century
Paul Caruana Galizia Institute of Economic History Humboldt-University of Berlin Berlin, Germany
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Acknowledgements
I wrote this book as a fellow in the Institute of Economic History at the Humboldt University of Berlin. My first debt is to Nikolaus Wolf, the Institute’s Chair, for his support throughout two wunderbare Jahre in Berlin. At Humboldt, I received excellent research assistance from Felix Kersting, Oliver Salzmann, and André Wiesner. Over the past few years, staff at the National Archives of Malta, the National Statistics Office of Malta, the International Monetary Fund publications team, the London School of Economics Archives, the Cambridge University L
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