Alberto Beneduce, Mussolinis Technocrat - Power, Knowledge, and Institutions in Fascist Italy

This volume offers the first comprehensive scholarly examination in English of Beneduce's political and ideological positions and aims to shed light on the broad interplay between knowledge, power, economics and the political elite in Fascist Italy.

List of contents

Introduction 1. Beneduce's Intellectual Education: Statistician, Scholar and Economic Thinker 2. The Architect of the Institutions. The First Steps: War, Insurance and Assistance 3. The Political Career of Alberto Beneduce: from Socialism and Reformism to Fascism 4. The Institutional Transformation of the Italian Economy 5. The Economic Dictator of Italy 6. Power, Independence, and Institutional Leadership. The Last Years Conclusions: The Long and Complex Legacy of Alberto Beneduce

About the author

Lorenzo Castellani is Tenure Track Researcher in History of Political Institutions at Luiss Guido Carli University, Rome, Italy. He is a political analyst for national and international media. He also published The History of the United States Civil Service: From the Postwar Years to the Twenty-First Century (Routledge, 2021).

Product details

• Authors: Lorenzo Castellani, Lorenzo (Luiss Guido Carli University Castellani
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 06.10.2025
• EAN: 9781032789040
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3278904-0
• No. of pages: 214
• Series: Routledge Studies in Fascism and the Far Right
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; History, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, HISTORY / Europe / Italy, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / General