The so-called ‘Price Revolution': Reflections on ‘the Italian Situation'

‘The Price Revolution’—such is the imposing label that has been given to the history of prices in the sixteenth century. It has certainly made its mark. There is no book on economic history that fails to adopt it and use it in order to explain, by means of its ‘Open, Sesame’ effect, the entire economic history of the beginning of the modern era.