Paolo Malanima
Institute of Studies on Mediterranean Societies
National Council of Research in Naples
Via Pietro Castellino, 111
80131 Naples, Italy
Paolo.malanima@issm.cnr.it

Currently Director, from 2002, of the Institute of Studies on Mediterranean Societies (ISSM) in Naples of the Italian National Research Council (CNR) and Full Prof. of Economic History and Economics in the University “Magna Graecia” in Catanzaro.
President from December 2001 of the European Graduate School for Training in Economic and Social historical Research (ESTER) in Nijmegen; later Rotterdam; later Groningen.
Winner of the Capalbio Prize for Economic History (2005).
Member of the Advisory Board of the Posthumus Centre from 1997. Member of the Scientific Committee of the Italian Society of Demographic History (SIDES) from 2003.

1969-1973 Student in Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa and University of Pisa. 1973-1994 Researcher and Associate Prof. of Economic History in the University of Pisa.
1994-2002 Full prof. of Economic History and Economics in the University “Magna Graecia” in Catanzaro.

Member of the board of the following journals: “Società e storia” (from 1978), “I viaggi di Erodoto” (from 1987 to 2000), “Rivista di storia economica” (from 1995). Correspondent of “Österreichische Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaften” (from 1993 to 2000); corresponding editor of the “International Review of Social History” (from 1993). Member of the Consejo of “Investigaciones de Historia Economica“.
Member from 1991 of the European Graduate School for Training in Economic and Social historical Research (ESTER).
Member of the teaching team in the Ester Research Design Courses held in Nijmegen (1999), Evora (2000), Bari (2001), Ghent (2002), Tampere (2003), Brescia (2004), Münster (2005), Amsterdam (2006); Paris (2005).

Recent Books and Publications
Energia e crescita nell'Europa preindustriale, Roma, La Nuova Italia Scientifica, 1996.
L'economia italiana. Dalla crescita medievale alla crescita contemporanea, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2002.
Uomini, risorse, tecniche nell'economia europea dal X al XIX secolo, Milano, Bruno Mondadori, 2003.
The Italian Energy Consumption in the last two Centuries. A Statistical Outline. Roma, Issm-CNR, 2006.

• Measuring the Italian Economy 1300-1861, in "Rivista di Storia Economica", XIX, 2003, pp. 265-295.
• From the Mediterranean: about Scylla and Carybdis, in Living economic and social history, edited by P. Hudson, Glasgow, Economic History Society, 2001, pp. 224-8.
• The Energy basis for early modern growth 1650-1820, in Early Modern Capitalism. Economic and social change in Europe, 1400-1800, ed. by M. Prak, London and New York, Routledge, 2000, pp. 51-68.
• Progress, Decline, Growth. Product and Productivity in Italian Agriculture 1000-2000, in "Economic History Review", II s. 2004, 4 (with G. Federico).
• Urbanisation and the Italian Economy during the last Millennium, in “European Review of Economic History”, 9, 2005, pp. 97-122.
• Cycles and stability. Italian population before the demographic transition (225 B.C.-A.D. 1900), “Rivista di Storia Economica”, n.s., XXI, 2005, 3, pp. 5-40 (with E. Lo Cascio).
• Energy Crisis and Growth 1650-1850. The European Deviation in a Comparative Perspective, in "The Journal of Global History", 2006, I, pp. 101-21.
• An Age of Decline. Product and Income in the 18th and 19th Centuries Italy, “Rivista di Storia Economica”, XXII, 2006, pp. 91-133.
• A Declining Economy: Central and Northern Italy in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, in Spain in Italy. Politics, Society, and Religion 1500-1700, ed. By T.J. Dandelet and J.A. Marino, Leiden-Boston, Brill, 2006, pp. 383-404.
• Alle origini della crescita in Italia 1820-1913, in “Rivista di Storia Economica”, n.s., XXII, 2006, pp. 306-30.
• Mechanical Energy and Water Power in Europe: a Long Stability?, in E. Hermon (ed.), La gestion intégrée de l’eau dans l’histoire environmentale, Université de Laval, 2006, pp. 268-85 (con E. Lo Cascio).
• North versus South: Energy Transition and Energy Intensity in Europe over 200 years, in “European Review of Economic History”, 2007, 11, pp. 219-53 (in col-laborazione con B. Gales, A. Kander, M. Rubio).
• Il prodotto delle regioni e il divario Nord-Sud in Italia (1861-2004), in “Rivista di Politica Economica”, 2007, XCVII, pp. 1-49 (con V. Daniele).
• Wages, Productivity and Working Time in Italy 1300-1913, in “Journal of European Economic History”.