Round table comments
- Guido Alfani
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- CC BY 4.0
- DOI: 10.36253/979-12-215-0667-9.30
This brief article expands on the Prolusion given to the LV Settimana Datini, clarifying some additional aspects and proposing a few examples of upward socio-economic mobility. Particular attention is given to two topics: the importance of the acquisition of nobility for social ascension in medieval and early modern times, and the connections between historical processes of social closure, economic closure, and political closure.
- Keywords:
- social mobility,
- socio-economic mobility,
- wealth,
- social closure,
- political closure,
- super-rich,
Bocconi University, Italy - ORCID: 0000-0001-5534-8694
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Chapter Information
Chapter Title
Round table comments
Authors
Guido Alfani
Language
English
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0667-9.30
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Publication Year
2025
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Book Title
La mobilità sociale nelle società preindustriali: tendenze, cause ed effetti (secc. XIII-XVIII) / Social mobility in pre-industrial societies: tendencies, causes and effects (13th-18th centuries)
Editors
Angela Orlandi
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Number of Pages
612
Publication Year
2025
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© 2025 Author(s)
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Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0667-9
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979-12-215-0666-2
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979-12-215-0667-9
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Series Title
Datini Studies in Economic History
Series ISSN
2975-1241
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2975-1195