Adapting to the Fascist Regime
M.M. Augello, M.E.L Guidi and F. Bientinesi (eds), 1, Cham, Palgrave Macmillan, 2019
Italy is well known for its prominent economists, as well as for the typical public profile they have constantly revealed. But, when facing an illiberal and totalitarian regime, how closely did Italian economists collaborate with government in shaping its economic and political institutions, or work independently? This edited book completes a gap in the history of Italian economic thought by addressing in a comprehensive way the crucial link between economics and the fascist regime, covering the history of political economy in Italy during the so-called “Ventennio” (1922-1943) with an institutional perspective. The approach is threefold: analysis of the academic and extra-academic scene, where economic science was elaborated and taught, the connection between economics, society and politics, and the dissemination of scientific debate. Special attention is given to the bias caused by the Fascist regime to economic debate and careers.
This Volume I deals with the economics profession under Fascism, in particular in light of the political and institutional changes that the regime introduced, the restructuring of higher education, the restriction of freedom in teaching and of the press, and with respect to promoting its own strategies of political and ideological propaganda.
Indice
M.M. Augello, M.E.L. Guidi and F. Bientinesi, Italian Economics and Fascism: An Institutional View, pp. 1-32
P. Barucci, Italian Economists and the Fascist Regime: Only an Ambiguous and Painful Continuity?, pp. 33-64.
S. Misiani and M. Mosca, The Persistence of Tradition: The Economists in the Law Faculties and in the Higher Institutes of Business Studies, pp. 65-87.
F. Bientinesi and M. Cini, The Faculties of Political Sciences and Schools for Advanced Corporative Studies, pp. 89-118.
A. Magliulo and G. Tusset, The Economic Culture of Academic Journals during Fascism, pp. 119-142.
F. Dal Degan and F. Simon, “Generalist” Journals between Dissemination of Economics and Regime Propaganda, pp. 143-169.
R. Faucci and N. Giocoli, Textbooks of Economics during the Ventennio: Forging the Homo Corporativus?, pp. 171-199.
C. Cristiano and M. Di Matteo, Series of Economics and Encyclopaedias: Traditional Economic Theory and New Paths, pp. 201-227.
