Il quaderno di Girolamo Li Causi sul capitale finanziario italiano

pp: 639 DOI: 10.7375/70304

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The essay is a critique and philological comment on the unpublished notebook written by Girolamo Li Causi during his confinement on Ventotene between March and April 1942
on the development of Italian financial capital. Li Causiâ€
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s economic thought is reconstructed in light of the biographical path and the evolution of economic debate within the PCI during fascism. The notebookâ€
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s analysis starts with a study of the upheavals produced in the Italian economy beginning with the crisis of 1929
and focuses on the evolution of IRI and the Bastogi group with particular attention to relations between the State and Â«monopolies Â»
and to the problems of rebuilding the European economy and of the Italian postwar crisis. Indicative of the thought of the communist leadership in confinement
Li Causiâ€
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s work makes it possible to specify the weight of catastrophism and the concept of structural reforms in the PCIâ€
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s culture in the 1940s