‘Rome wasn't built in a day’: lobbies, institutions and speculation in the 1880s building fever
Year: 2012
Type: article
Abstract: ABSTRACT: During the 1880s, a massive speculative boom occurred in the Roman real estate market. Its subsequent crash left a lasting mark on the structure of the city and triggered a nationwide banking crisis. This article analyses the causes of this boom and bust by showing how a small but cohesive lobby managed to bypass and bend to its own advantage formal regulation by exploiting institutional conflicts and political divisions at both national and local level.
Source: Urban History
Author: PAOLO DI MARTINO
Institution: University of Birmingham
Language: English
Subfield: Economics and Econometrics
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2140430993