Common welfare versus the spirit of private enterprise: the experience of Italian municipalization from 1880 to 1930

Piero Bini and Daniela Parisi ()

The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 2010, vol. 17, issue 4, 933-956

Abstract: This paper investigates the Italian debate on municipalization between the 1880s and the 1920s and is divided into two parts. The first deals with the emergence of the municipalization in the late nineteenth century as a component in the birth of the Social State. The second part concerns the analytical tools elaborated by some leading Italian economists in the first three decades of the twentieth century, when municipalization was the expression of an entire lifecycle, with an early expanding stage (until World War I) and a later stage (under Fascism) of prevalent stagnation.

Keywords: Public enterprises; monopoly; welfare economics; history of economic thought (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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DOI: 10.1080/09672560903552561

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