Neoliberals’ economic liberalism: A checkered history

Romani, Roberto

doi:10.1111/1467-8675.12602

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“…The ‘men’ of policy were unashamedly normative, as indicated by a series of lines of argument, including the following. First, complaints about people’s deficient rationality were frequent from Malthus (denouncing reproductive habits) to Pareto, Robbins, or Mises (deploring electors’ statism in democracies; Romani, 2022). Second, it was common for economists to assume that the citizens of different countries displayed distinct attitudes, which were more or less conducive to growth.…”

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Corrado Gini's economic anthropology

Romani

2023

History of the Human Sciences

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Corrado Gini was a key intellectual in the Fascist establishment. His scientific programme included statistics, demography, eugenics, economics, and sociology, as well as occasional forays into political thought and anthropology. Historians have focused on his statistics and eugenics, in connection with his spell as head of the Italian bureau of statistics. This article, integrating economics with the other threads of Gini’s programme, takes economic anthropology as a standpoint to reassess the inspiration behind his whole oeuvre. That anthropology consisted of two parts: the criticism of economists’ ‘economic man’ and the attempt to replace it with an instinctual economic agent, inspired by the nationalist rhetoric of ‘young peoples’ bound to conquer the world. Once the perspective is enlarged, the usual definition of Gini as a technocrat proves insufficient, for his science incorporated essential pieces of Fascism’s political ideology and cultural legitimacy.

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