Unit AGRICULTURE, DICTATORSHIP AND DEMOCRACY: INSTITUTIONAL PERSPECTIVES
- Course
- Sustainable agriculture
- Study-unit Code
- A006236
- Curriculum
- Bioeconomia
- Teacher
- Gaetano Martino
- Teachers
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- Gaetano Martino
- Hours
- 18 ore - Gaetano Martino
- CFU
- 3
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2026
- Offered
- 2026/27
- Learning activities
- A scelta dello studente
- Area
- A scelta dello studente
- Sector
- AGRI-01/A
- Type of study-unit
- Opzionale (Optional)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
- Language of instruction
- English
- Contents
- Part One: The Role of the Agricultural Classes in Groups of Countries That Followed the Two Different Paths. The Development of the Market Economy and Agriculture in Post-Unification Italy. Part Two: Democracy and the Evolution of the Agricultural Union in the Italian Experience.
- Reference texts
- Barrington Moore Jr., (1993), Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern World, Beacon PRess
Acemogli D., Robinson J.A, (2012), Why the Nations fail. The origins of power, prosperity and poverty
Martino, G. (2007). L’analisi del sindacalismo agricolo nella Economia dei mercati agricoli di Vito Saccomandi. In Vito Saccomandi e l’economia agraria italiana nel decennale della sua scomparsa. IL MULINO. - Educational objectives
- he course aims to introduce students to the analysis of the relationships between social structures, institutional dimensions and governance structures in contemporary agriculture and to define the role of the agricultural union.
- Prerequisites
- Knowldge of Political Economy and Food Economics
- Teaching methods
- Room lecture
- Learning verification modality
- Final examination
- Extended program
- 1. Alternative Paths to the Modern World
1.1 The Case of England
1.2 The Case of France
1.3 The Case of Japan
1.4 Summary
2. Towards an Explanation
2.1 Insufficient Theories
2.2 The Emergence of Poverty and Prosperity
2.3 The Virtuous Circle and the Vicious Circle
3. The Agricultural Union in the Contemporary Economy
3.1 A Historical Overview
2.2 Organizational Transformation and the New Agricultural Unionism
2.3 Political Power and Agricultural Unions - Obiettivi Agenda 2030 per lo sviluppo sostenibile
- No poverty
Zero hunger
Dece nt work and economic growth