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Doing Math in Mussolini’s Pocket : Ernesto Rossi and Fascist Public Finance (1926-1930)
2023
This essay deals with the brief but intense collaboration of Ernesto Rossi with the «Riforma Sociale», a prestigious journal of economics and social sciences founded by Francesco Saverio Nitti in 1894 and directed by Luigi Einaudi since 1908. Between 1926 and 1930, Rossi authored seven long essays on issues of public finance, applied economics, and economic statistics that have been relatively neglected by historiography. The rereading of these contributions allows us to illuminate some central moments in his training as an economist. This essay focuses on four articles he devoted to a deep analysis of the Italian budget and public debt, recalculating public revenues and expenses, with rela…