Maleth
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It seems that throughtout most of history Italy remained mostly stagnant, making infer by their their history they are not so promising, whereas other countries (hm, which ones? Germany, Switzerland, Sweden...) just went on catching up with it and eventually getting better economical performance. And in 2003 Italy got better to eventually fall down again. Germany and Japan to have done pretty well after WWII, whereas Italy is marked by rather unstable politics since then.
Consider these points before dropping your hints.
Please note that Italy and Germany unified as countries at around 1870, before that they were just separate regions. Germany was just 100's of states sometimes even a village was a state, let alone being able to have GDP results from 1500 as the Madison figures suggest. If not mistaken GDP methodology was first used or created sometime in the 1940's in the US. Am I missing something maybe?