1 Correction to: Cliometrica https://doi.org/10.1007/s11698-020-00204-3

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The article Crowding out the change: business networks and persisting economic elites in the South of Italy over Unification (1840–1880), written by Maria Carmela Schisani, Luigi Balletta and Giancarlo Ragozini, was originally published electronically on the publisher’s Internet portal on 16 March 2020 without open access. With the author(s)’ decision to opt for Open Choice, the copyright of the article changed on 14 April 2020 to © The Author(s) 2020, and the article is forthwith distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license and indicate if changes were made.