Without Coal in the Age of Steam: A Factor-Endowment Explanation of the Italian Industrial Lag Before World War I
研究一战前意大利经济表现不佳的原因，指出缺乏国内煤炭储备是关键因素，并论证进口和替代（如电力）未能有效解决能源问题。
The performance of the Italian economy just before World War I was relatively poor as a result of a backward productive structure. Among other reasons, this may have been caused by the lack of domestic coal reserves, especially given the features of nineteenth-century technology. However, many economic historians resist this argument since coal could be either imported or substituted. Although both solutions were attempted in Italy, this article demonstrates that neither solved the Italian energy problem. In particular, the contribution made by electricity was much less effective than many contemporaries and historians have suggested.