RARE book by Riccardo Bachi (1875-1951), an eminent Jewish-Italian economist active mostly during the interwar period. This book, published posthumously, examines the prevalent economic structure of the Jewish communities since the first century CE, and attempts to explain the irregularities of economic life brought by the Diaspora. Riccardo Bachi was an influential Italian economist and statistician who laid the foundations for the scientific study of price fluctuations, and wrote on the economic history of the Risorgimento. From 1904 to 1908 Bachi edited the Italian Labor Department bulletin on employment, and from 1909 to 1921 he issued L`Italia Economica, an annual publication which he founded. From 1915 Bacchi taught statistics and economics at the universities of Macerata, Parma, and Genoa, and in 1926 he was appointed to the chair of political economy at the Royal Institute of Economic Sciences in Rome. After the enactment of anti-Jewish laws in Italy in 1938, he went to Palestine, where from 1940 to 1946, he lectured at the Tel Aviv branch of the Hebrew University. In 1946 he returned to the University of Rome. Interested in Zionism from the 1920s, he investigated the economic history of Jews, in particular the economic relations between Jews and non-Jews in the Diaspora. Noteworthy among Bachi`s writings are his "Principi di scienza economica", 2 vols. (1937-40) and "Israele disperso e ricostruito (1952). 240x170mm. 181 pages. Softcover. Cover and spine yellowing and worn. Cover corners and edges creased. Front cover edge slightly torn (8mm). Previous owner`s name written on front cover upper edge. Spine creased. Spine edges peeling. Front whitepage upper edge slightly torn. Author`s portrait clipped from a newspaper stapled to front whitepage. Page corners slightly creased. Pages yellowing. [SUMMARY]: This rare book is otherwise in good condition.