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Italian economic miracle, the Glossary

The Italian economic miracle or Italian economic boom (il miracolo economico italiano. or il boom economico italiano) is the term used by historians, economists, and the mass media to designate the prolonged period of strong economic growth in Italy after World War II to the late 1960s, and in particular the years from 1958 to 1963.^[1]

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1950s in Italy
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Antonio Segni

Antonio Segni (2 February 1891 – 1 December 1972) was an Italian politician and statesman who served as the president of Italy from May 1962 to December 1964, and as the prime minister of Italy in two distinct terms between 1955 and 1960.

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Cold War

The Cold War was a period of geopolitical tension between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies, the Western Bloc and the Eastern Bloc, that started in 1947, two years after the end of World War II, and lasted until the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991.

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Consumerism

Consumerism is a social and economic order in which the aspirations of many individuals include the acquisition of goods and services beyond those necessary for survival or traditional displays of status.

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Dino Risi

Dino Risi (23 December 1916 – 7 June 2008) was an Italian film director.

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Economic growth

Economic growth can be defined as the increase or improvement in the inflation-adjusted market value of the goods and services produced by an economy in a financial year.

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Economic history of Italy

This is a history of the economy of Italy.

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Economic miracle

Economic miracle is an informal economic term for a period of dramatic economic development that is entirely unexpected or unexpectedly strong. Italian economic miracle and economic miracle are economic booms.

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Ettore Scola

Ettore Scola (10 May 1931 – 19 January 2016) was an Italian screenwriter and film director.

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The European Economic Community (EEC) was a regional organisation created by the Treaty of Rome of 1957,Today the largely rewritten treaty continues in force as the Treaty on the functioning of the European Union, as renamed by the Lisbon Treaty.

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Free World

The Free World is a propaganda term, primarily used during the Cold War from 1945 to 1991, to refer to the Western Bloc and aligned countries.

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Genoa

Genoa (Genova,; Zêna) is a city in and the capital of the Italian region of Liguria, and the sixth-largest city in Italy.

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Gross domestic product

Gross domestic product (GDP) is a monetary measure of the market value of all the final goods and services produced and rendered in a specific time period by a country or countries.

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Hot Autumn

The Hot Autumn (Autunno caldo) of 1969–70 is a term used for a series of large strikes in the factories and industrial centers of Northern Italy, in which workers demanded better pay and better conditions.

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I mostri

I mostri (also known as Opiate '67 or, in a cut version, 15 from Rome) is a 1963 commedia all'italiana film by Italian director Dino Risi.

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Il Boom

Il Boom is a 1963 commedia all'italiana black-and-white film directed by Vittorio De Sica.

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Il Sorpasso

Il sorpasso, also titled The Easy Life in English, is a 1962 Italian comedy film co-written and directed by Dino Risi and starring Vittorio Gassman, Jean-Louis Trintignant and Catherine Spaak.

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Intellectual

An intellectual is a person who engages in critical thinking, research, and reflection about the reality of society, and who proposes solutions for its normative problems.

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Iron Curtain

During the Cold War, the Iron Curtain was a political metaphor used to describe the political and later physical boundary dividing Europe into two separate areas from the end of World War II in 1945 until the end of the Cold War in 1991.

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Istituto per la Ricostruzione Industriale

The Istituto per la Ricostruzione Industriale (IRI; English: "Institute for Industrial Reconstruction") was an Italian public holding company established in 1933 by the Fascist regime to rescue, restructure and finance banks and private companies that went bankrupt during the Great Depression.

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Italian Communist Party

The Italian Communist Party (Partito Comunista Italiano, PCI) was a communist and democratic socialist political party in Italy.

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Italian diaspora

The Italian diaspora (emigrazione italiana) is the large-scale emigration of Italians from Italy.

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Italy

Italy, officially the Italian Republic, is a country in Southern and Western Europe.

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Japan

Japan is an island country in East Asia, located in the Pacific Ocean off the northeast coast of the Asian mainland.

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Japanese economic miracle

The Japanese economic miracle (Kōdo keizai seichō) refers to Japan's record period of economic growth between the post-World War II era and the end of the Cold War. Italian economic miracle and Japanese economic miracle are 1950s in economic history, 1960s in economic history, economic booms and post–World War II economic booms.

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John F. Kennedy

John Fitzgerald Kennedy (May 29, 1917 – November 22, 1963), often referred to as JFK, was an American politician who served as the 35th president of the United States from 1961 until his assassination in 1963.

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Korean War

The Korean War was fought between North Korea and South Korea; it began on 25 June 1950 when North Korea invaded South Korea and ceased upon an armistice on 27 July 1953.

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La dolce vita

La dolce vita (Italian for 'the sweet life' or 'the good life'Kezich, 203) is a 1960 satirical comedy-drama film directed by Federico Fellini.

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Luciano Bianciardi

Luciano Bianciardi (14 December 1922 – 14 November 1971) was an Italian journalist, translator and writer of short stories and novels.

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Marshall Plan

The Marshall Plan (officially the European Recovery Program, ERP) was an American initiative enacted in 1948 to provide foreign aid to Western Europe. Italian economic miracle and Marshall Plan are 1950s in economic history and 1960s in economic history.

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Mass media include the diverse arrays of media that reach a large audience via mass communication.

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Mediterranean Sea

The Mediterranean Sea is a sea connected to the Atlantic Ocean, surrounded by the Mediterranean Basin and almost completely enclosed by land: on the north by Southern Europe and Anatolia, on the south by North Africa, on the east by the Levant in West Asia, and on the west almost by the Morocco–Spain border.

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Milan

Milan (Milano) is a city in northern Italy, regional capital of Lombardy, and the second-most-populous city proper in Italy after Rome.

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OECD

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD; Organisation de coopération et de développement économiques, OCDE) is an intergovernmental organisation with 38 member countries, founded in 1961 to stimulate economic progress and world trade.

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Pier Paolo Pasolini

Pier Paolo Pasolini (5 March 1922 – 2 November 1975) was an Italian poet, film director, writer, actor and playwright.

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Post–World War II economic expansion

The post–World War II economic expansion, also known as the postwar economic boom or the Golden Age of Capitalism, was a broad period of worldwide economic expansion beginning with the aftermath of World War II and ending with the 1973–1975 recession. Italian economic miracle and post–World War II economic expansion are economic booms and post–World War II economic booms.

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President of Italy

The president of Italy, officially titled President of the Italian Republic (Presidente della Repubblica Italiana), is the head of state of Italy.

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President of the United States

The president of the United States (POTUS) is the head of state and head of government of the United States of America.

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Public housing

Public housing is a form of housing tenure in which the property is usually owned by a government authority, either central or local.

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RAI

i, commercially styled as i since 2000 and known until 1954 as i, is the national public broadcasting company of Italy, owned by the Ministry of Economy and Finance.

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Rome

Rome (Italian and Roma) is the capital city of Italy.

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Seveso disaster

The Seveso disaster was an industrial accident that occurred around 12:37 pm on 10 July 1976, in a small chemical manufacturing plant approximately north of Milan in the Lombardy region of Italy.

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Spanish miracle

The Spanish miracle (el milagro español) refers to a period of exceptionally rapid development and growth across all major areas of economic activity in Spain during the latter part of the Francoist regime, 1959 to 1974, in which GDP averaged a 6.5 percent growth rate per year, and was itself part of a much longer period of an above average GDP growth rate from 1951 to 2007. Italian economic miracle and Spanish miracle are 1950s in economic history, 1960s in economic history, economic booms and post–World War II economic booms.

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Turin

Turin (Torino) is a city and an important business and cultural centre in Northern Italy.

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United States

The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America.

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Urban decay

Urban decay (also known as urban rot, urban death or urban blight) is the sociological process by which a previously functioning city, or part of a city, falls into disrepair and decrepitude.

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Vajont Dam

The Vajont Dam or Vaiont Dam is a disused hydro-electric dam in northern Italy.

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Vittorio De Sica

Vittorio De Sica (7 July 1901 – 13 November 1974) was an Italian film director and actor, a leading figure in the neorealist movement.

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We All Loved Each Other So Much

We All Loved Each Other So Much (C'eravamo tanto amati) is a 1974 Italian comedy-drama film directed by Ettore Scola, who co-wrote the screenplay with screenwriting duo Age & Scarpelli.

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West Germany

West Germany is the common English name for the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) from its formation on 23 May 1949 until the reunification with East Germany on 3 October 1990. The Cold War-era country is sometimes known as the Bonn Republic (Bonner Republik) after its capital city of Bonn. During the Cold War, the western portion of Germany and the associated territory of West Berlin were parts of the Western Bloc.

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Western Europe

Western Europe is the western region of Europe.

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Wirtschaftswunder

The Wirtschaftswunder ("economic miracle"), also known as the Miracle on the Rhine, was the rapid reconstruction and development of the economies of West Germany and Austria after World War II (due to both the Marshall Plan and both governments adopting an ordoliberalism-based social market economy). Italian economic miracle and Wirtschaftswunder are 1950s in economic history, economic booms and post–World War II economic booms.

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World War II

World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.

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Years of Lead (Italy)

In Italy, the phrase Years of Lead (Anni di piombo) refers to a period of political violence and social upheaval that lasted from the late 1960s until the late 1980s, marked by a wave of both far-left and far-right incidents of political terrorism and violent clashes.

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1973 oil crisis

In October 1973, the Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries (OAPEC) announced that it was implementing a total oil embargo against the countries who had supported Israel at any point during the 1973 Yom Kippur War, which began after Egypt and Syria launched a large-scale surprise attack in an ultimately unsuccessful attempt to recover the territories that they had lost to Israel during the 1967 Six-Day War.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_economic_miracle

Also known as Economic history of Italy (1950 - 1960), Miracolo economico.

, Wirtschaftswunder, World War II, Years of Lead (Italy), 1973 oil crisis.

Italian economic miracle, the Glossary

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See also

1950s in Italy

1950s in economic history

1960s in Italy

1960s in economic history

Economic booms

Economic history of Italy

Post–World War II economic booms

References