Progress, decline, growth: product and productivity in Italian agriculture, 1000-2000

Progress, decline, growth: product and productivity in Italian agriculture, 1000-2000. This article estimates agricultural production and output per worker in Italy, from about the year 1000 to the present. The millennium may be divided neatly into three periods. Output per worker increased until the fourteenth century, declined, with some fluctuations, until the end of the nineteenth century, and then recovered, booming in the past 50 years.