Private Wealth in Renaissance Florence

Goldthwaite, Richard A.

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“…81 To conceptualize diffusion and growth with a collapse at the center, the imperfect metaphor of a volcano comes to mind: Patrilineage aspiration was the lava pushing up many nouveaux families to congeal, even as it induced the true model to which they were aspiring to collapse. In my assessment, Goldthwaite, 1968, andKent, 1977, essentially were both correct in their debate about the historic decline or not of patrilineage in Florence, because of the co-existence of these apparently contradictory trends of patrilineage diffusion and collapse.…”

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Open Elite? Social Mobility, Marriage, and Family in Florence, 1282–1494^*

Padgett

2010

Renaiss. Q.

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This article statistically analyzes quantitative data from numerous sources in order to assess changes in marriage patterns, family structure, and rates of social mobility during the period from 1282 to 1494. During this period, three systems of social stratification coexisted — wealth, political office, and age of family — but these contending status systems were not consistent in their rankings of families. Each status system was conservative in the sense that elite families at the top of that hierarchy married each other in order to stabilize their position. But because of inconsistency in rankings, contradiction within the elite opened up the Florentine marriage system to widespread upward social mobility by new men. In their own families, successful new men aggressively imitated their economically and politically declining status superiors. Sharp class divisions thereby blurred into continuous and negotiable status gradients. These open-elite patterns of social mobility, present throughout the early Florentine Renaissance, were most extreme during the Albizzi regime, immediately following the Ciompi Revolt.

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“…Using mostly economic evidence, Goldthwaite, 1968, provocatively argued that Florentine patrilineages progressively disintegrated into nuclear families over the course of the Renaissance. Using mostly non-economic evidence, Kent, 1977, forcefully denied that claim.…”

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Open Elite? Social Mobility, Marriage, and Family in Florence, 1282–1494^*

Padgett

2010

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“…Thus business family trades and skills (Goldthwaite, 2015) and the cohesive economic communities within which they reside (Marcus & Hall, 1992;Lomnitz et al, 1987) have remarkable longevity due to mentorship and the sharing within the family and community of social ties. And, as noted, wealthy families may form links with community institutions to sustain their businesses and fortunes (Franks et al, 2011;Morck & Yeung, 2003).…”

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Beyond the Firm: Business Families as Entrepreneurs

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Miller

2017

Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice

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Business families, we argue, will be core drivers of economic growth over the next decades, particularly in developing markets. We discuss the resources that provide them with advantages in multibusiness and multimarket entrepreneurial initiatives, the family-based challenges and opportunities that drive or pull them toward such initiatives, the environments in which significant business families thrive, and the resulting socioeconomic consequences.

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“…This too is a gap that must be filled as soon as possible. 41 Everyone recognizes the enormous importance of inheritance customs in determing the character of family life among the propertied classes, but only in France has the pattern been fully elucidated. In England little is known for certain about regional inheritance customs among the yeomanry and smallholders.…”

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Past Achievements and Future Trends

Stone¹

1981

Journal of Interdisciplinary History

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JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact support@jstor.org. . The MIT Press and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the editors of The Journal of Interdisciplinary History are collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to The Journal of Interdisciplinary History. Past Achievements and Future Trends GROWTH, SOURCES, AND TYPOLOGYWithin the field of history, social history has been the greatest growth industry since World War II, with its sub-field family history having undergone an even more spectacular expansion. Although this growth has taken place all over the world, it has been most heavily concentrated in America, France, and England, which together account for nearly 40 percent of the total world output. The books and articles produced in these three countries, which are almost equal in the total volume of their respective output, have been outstanding in quality as well as quantity, for this is where most of the important and innovatory work has been done.1The output for these three countries is an indicator of how the field has grown. The number of significant books and articles published about family history rose in England and France from under ten every five years in the I920s, I930s, and early I940s to between 200 and 240 from 1972 to I976-a twentyfold increase in thirty years (Table I). What is so remarkable is the dizzy acceleration of growth in the 1970s, at a time when the total output of scholarly publications was leveling off as the economic crisis of academia began to affect both authors and publishers.In America the growth curve is basically similar, although it differs in some significant respects. The pre-war output, mostly devoted either to sociological theory or to the history of the post-1890 period, was already higher than that of England or France, Lawrence Stone is the Dodge Professor of History and the Director of the Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies, Princeton University. Among his books is The Family, Sex and Marriage in England, 1500-1800 (London, I977).

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Private Wealth in Renaissance Florence

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Open Elite? Social Mobility, Marriage, and Family in Florence, 1282–1494^*

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