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Italy stopped growing in productivity after 1995

Italy grew at least as fast as Europe and the US in productivity from 1945 to 1995, but since 1995 it stopped growing in productivity, and because income per capita cannot grow without productivity growth, the country has stagnated for 20 years.

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Luigi Zingales

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Since 1995, Italy stopped growing in terms of productivity. Of course, if you don’t grow in terms of productivity, you don’t grow in terms of income per capita

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Luigi ZingalesConversations with Tyler
Created: 6/13/2026, 3:24:55 AM

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