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Guido Alfani

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Guido Alfani is Professor of Economic History at Bocconi University, Milan (Italy). He is also an Affiliated Scholar at the Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality (New York), a Research Associate at the CAGE Research Centre (Warwick) and a Research Fellow of the Center for Economic Policy Research (CEPR, London).
An economic and social historian and a historical demographer, he published extensively on Italy and Europe (and beyond), specialising in economic inequality and social mobility, in the history of epidemics and famines, in social alliance systems and social networks.
His most recent book, As Gods among Men. A History of the Rich in the West (Princeton University Press, 2023) is an ambitious attempt at providing a general history o Guido Alfani is Professor of Economic History at Bocconi University, Milan (Italy). He is also an Affiliated Scholar at the Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality (New York), a Research Associate at the CAGE Research Centre (Warwick) and a Research Fellow of the Center for Economic Policy Research (CEPR, London).
An economic and social historian and a historical demographer, he published extensively on Italy and Europe (and beyond), specialising in economic inequality and social mobility, in the history of epidemics and famines, in social alliance systems and social networks.
His most recent book, As Gods among Men. A History of the Rich in the West (Princeton University Press, 2023) is an ambitious attempt at providing a general history of the rich and the super-rich, and of how they obtained their wealth, from Antiquity until today.
His previous book, The Lion’s Share. Inequality and the Rise of the Fiscal State in Preindustrial Europe (Cambridge University Press, 2019), with Matteo Di Tullio, explores how preindustrial fiscal systems favoured a continuous increase in economic inequality, because they were designed by the elites, for the advantage of the elites.
Previous books by Alfani focused on the economic and social consequences of major catastrophes. The book Calamities and the Economy in Renaissance Italy (Palgrave 2013) discusses the impact of war, plague and famine in the different pre-unification Italian states during 1494-1629 - what Alfani dubs the "long sixteenth century". The book Famine in European History, a collection of essays which Alfani edited together with Cormac Ó Gráda, focused on major crises triggered by a scarcity of food (and/or of access to food). The book Pandemie d'Italia ("Italian Pandemics", Egea 2010, available in Italian edition only), which Alfani co-authored with Alessia Melegaro, covers the consequences of plagues (from the Black Death of the fourteenth century to the last plague epidemics affecting Italy in the early eighteenth century), of cholera pandemics, of the Spanish Flu and of other major influenza pandemics, of pandemics of sexually-transmitted infections such as syphilis and HIV, and closes with a discussion of recent pandemic threats, up to the "Swine Flu" influenza pandemic of 2009-10.
Alfani also published extensively in social history, particularly on the history of godparenthood and the spiritual kinship ties that it generated. To this topic he dedicated his first book, Fathers and Godfathers. Spiritual Kinship in Early-Modern Italy (Routledge 2009). ...more

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	As Gods Among Men: A History of the Rich in the West 3.95 avg rating — 131 ratings — published 2023 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Lion's Share: Inequality and the Rise of the Fiscal State in Preindustrial Europe (Cambridge Studies in Economic History - Second Series) by Guido Alfani (Goodreads Author), Matteo Di Tullio 4.50 avg rating — 12 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Pandemie d'Italia (Cultura e società) by Guido Alfani (Goodreads Author), Alessia Melegaro 4.13 avg rating — 8 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Famine in European History 4.50 avg rating — 6 ratings — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Calamities and the Economy in Renaissance Italy: The Grand Tour of the Horsemen of the Apocalypse 4.17 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2013 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Il Grand Tour dei Cavalieri dell'Apocalisse. L'Italia del «lungo Cinquecento» (1494-1629) 4.17 avg rating — 6 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Spiritual Kinship in Europe, 1500-1900 by Guido Alfani (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Vincent Gourdon (Editor) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2012 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fathers and Godfathers: Spiritual Kinship in Early-Modern Italy (Catholic Christendom, 1300-1700) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2009 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Le parrainage en Europe et en Amérique: Pratiques de longue durée (XVIe – XXIe siècle) (Histoire des mondes modernes) by Guido Alfani (Goodreads Author) (editor), Vincent Goudron (Editor), Isabelle Robin (Editor) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Nella morsa della guerra. Assedi, occupazioni militari e saccheggi in età preindustriale: Assedi, occupazioni militari e saccheggi in età preindustriale by Guido Alfani (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Mario Rizzo (Editor) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“[The rich] are like the pearl in the oyster: shiny indeed, and produced by the living body of the oyster, but at the same time somewhat extraneous to the organism.”
― Guido Alfani, As Gods Among Men: A History of the Rich in the West

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