Summary - TST 40
TRANSPORTES, SERVICIOS Y TELECOMUNICACIONES
Giulio Fenicia
Private vices vs public virtues: taxation and meat market in Taranto between 19th and 20th centuries
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[ Abstract ]
This essay aims at investigating the conflicting relationship
between the governance guidelines of a Southern municipal
administration, which is dutifully attentive to meeting the
primary needs for subsistence of the weakest segments of its
population, but which is also forced to act within an unbalanced
and constraining tax and budgetary structure, and the
antithetical interests of profit-minded local economic
operators. The outcome of such contraposition is the continuous,
necessarily ever-evolving search for balance, whose functioning
mechanisms are the main object of this investigation. The
specific case study, investigated in its various aspects, is
that of the meat market in the town of Taranto which, despite
its uniqueness, represents well the social and economic dynamics
of a Southern community projected into the new and uncertain
post-unitary dimension.