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Italian Economists and the Fascist Regime: Only an Ambiguous and Painful Continuity?

In: An Institutional History of Italian Economics in the Interwar Period — Volume I

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  • Piero Barucci

    (University of Florence)

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The chapter provides an overview on Italian economics under the fascist regime. The period saw the strengthening of academic institutionalisation and the rise of a new profile of economic expert operating in State-owned companies. Conversely, the dictatorship interrupted the traditional free circuit of ideas between theory and policy. While fascist censorship was engaged in inspecting comments on official economic policies, the economic profession watched over the recruitment of academics to defend the scientific level of the discipline. The compromises which academics were forced to accept generated a majority of passive fascist economists and only a minority of assenting economist fascists. It was with the racial laws of 1938, which excluded Jewish citizens from holding public positions, that the world of Italian economists was turned upside down.

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  • Piero Barucci, 2019. "Italian Economists and the Fascist Regime: Only an Ambiguous and Painful Continuity?," Palgrave Studies in the History of Economic Thought, in: Massimo M. Augello & Marco E.L. Guidi & Fabrizio Bientinesi (ed.), An Institutional History of Italian Economics in the Interwar Period — Volume I, pages 33-64, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:pshchp:978-3-030-32980-8_2
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-32980-8_2
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