 La scuola di Scienze Corporative di Pisa e lo studio dell'economia programmatica negli anni Trenta (The School of Corporative Sciences in Pisa and the study of mixed economy in the Thirties)Vincenzo Suriani
Il Pensiero Economico Italiano, 2005, vol. 13, issue 1, 51-73 Abstract: Towards the end of the 1920s, after consolidating its power, Fascism engaged itself in an original attempt to create a universal Fascist model, which should replace traditional liberalism. Part and parcel of this effort of innovation was the challenge represented by the creation of corporative economics, considered as a ‘new science’ opposed to traditional approaches. Under the guidance of the Fascist minister Giuseppe Bottai, a host of institutions were created in order to foster the development of the new corporative science, which in Italian universities had been strongly opposed by the dominant group of liberal economists. The School of Corporative Sciences in Pisa, and its official journal «Archivio di studi corporativi», followed the same destiny of the debate on corporativism: from initial enthusiasm, the discussion rapidly became sterile, to be definitively interrupted after the end of ww ii and the fall of the Fascist regime. Contrarily to other institutions of the same type, however, the Pisa School and its journal offered some original and anti-conformist hints of debate, which were barely understood at that time, and have been recently rediscovered. Study of foreign economists, the debate on mixed economy and on the role of the State, the publication in Italy of authors who had been banished by the regime, and a certain, albeit limited, capacity to understand the rise of Keynesian economics, represent some of the merits of the group of intellectuals who were gathered around the School. The present paper aims at reconstructing the history of the School and of the «Archivio», highlighting the role they played at different stages of the debate on corporative economics and the guidelines, very often of opposed tendencies, which inspired the economists and jurists who taught at the School during the thirties. Keywords: Corporativism; mixed economy; role of the State; world crisis; Ugo Spirito (Corporativismo; economia mista; ruolo dello Stato; crisi mondiale; Ugo Spirito) (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:pei:journl:v:13:y:2005:1:3:p:51-73 Access Statistics for this article Il Pensiero Economico Italiano is currently edited by Massimo Augello and Marco E. L. Guidi More articles in Il Pensiero Economico Italiano from Fabrizio Serra Editore, Pisa - Roma |
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