Industrial Policy in Italy
"Programmare il miracolo economico?"
Industrial Policy in Italy Between Boom and Crisis, 1958-1973
(DFG)
This research project focuses on economic policy in Italy during the long sixties (1957-1974). It examines the diverse attempts at transforming the country into an industrial state. Industrial policy, originally devised as a long-term strategy partly founded on the traditions of the fascist corporatism of the 1930s, was increasingly used as a short-term means to avert crisis.
Our project aims at comprehensively reconstructing the development of Italian industrial policy using a broad array of sources. In addition, the developments in Italy are located in their European contexts: The effects of the foundation of the EEC in 1957 are examined, as well as processes of reciprocal learning and exchange within the realm of economic policy.
Our project aims at comprehensively reconstructing the development of Italian industrial policy using a broad array of sources. In addition, the developments in Italy are located in their European contexts: The effects of the foundation of the EEC in 1957 are examined, as well as processes of reciprocal learning and exchange within the realm of economic policy.
