1. Economic Expertise and Political Militancy under Fascism: an Introduction -- 2. From Nationalism to Fascism: Protagonists and Journals -- 3. Planning and Discussing Corporatism and the “New International Order” -- 4. “Breaking down the Ivory Tower”: Economic Culture in Italian...

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...

This book addresses the comparative history of economic thought in Central European countries where there is a notable common historic heritage and political traits. The author explores issues of Central European identity, Habsburgian and Soviet influence, and nationalistic traditions, and...

Chapter 1: A new pure economics -- Chapter 2: Arguments in applied economics -- Chapter 3: The definitive abandonment of liberal political activism -- Chapter 4: The advance of Socialism and the obstacles impeding it -- Chapter 5: A new sociology -- Chapter 6: The war seen from Céligny --...

Introduction -- On the Concept of Central Europe/ness -- Economic Thought in Central Europe. - From the Beginning till the First World War -- The Interwar Period -- The Socialist Period -- After the Break-up of Socialism -- Conclusion.

This volume of intellectual biography takes the Italian economist, sociologist, political scientist Vilfredo Pareto (1848-1923) from his disillusionment with liberal and pacifist activism, to the original development of pure economics and the composition of his Treatise on General Sociology and...

1.Italian Economics and Fascism: an Institutional View -- 2. Economists and the Fascist Regime: A Painful Continuity? -- 3 The Persistence of Tradition: The Economists in the Law Faculties and in the Higher Institutes of Business Studies (1922 – 1943) -- 4.The Faculties of Political Sciences...