combination of austerity and technocracy acted as a powerful tool to secure the compliance of European countries to socio …Current debates on austerity often forget that these policies are almost 100 years old .This paper explores how the …-economic stabilization after WWI. Austerity emerged as an economic, moral and technocratic message as economic experts sought to educate the …

The historical forerunners of contemporary austerity are still largely unexplored. This essay considers the "liberal … phase" of Fascist Italy (1922-1925) as a case study to explain austerity as a full-blown rationality, that is intrinsically … beyond the interpretation of austerity as the post-1980, neoliberal recipe of price deflation and budget cuts. The Italian …

The historical forerunners of contemporary austerity are still largely unexplored. This essay considers the "liberal … phase" of Fascist Italy (1922-1925) as a case study to explain austerity as a full-blown rationality, that is intrinsically … beyond the interpretation of austerity as the post-1980, neoliberal recipe of price deflation and budget cuts. The Italian …

In Great Britain the seven years following WWI were marked by rigorous austerity policies. From 1918 to 1925 the main … justifications for the austerity policies. Hawtrian economics refined and strengthened the economic stance of the senior officials of … copious Treasury papers to unravel the conceptual building blocks of Hawtrey's austerity doctrine. It emerges that his policy …

Text of a speech held at the University of Rome in 1965. The author discusses the economic policy of Fascism, claiming … probably outweigh differences. What was peculiar of Fascism was the approach towards trade unions and the peculiarly …