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Author-Name: Vincenzo Suriani
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Author-Workplace-Name: Università di Pisa - Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche
Title: La diffusione del pensiero economico di Keynes in Italia: ipotesi a confronto 
(The spread of Keynesian economic thought in Italy: some alternative hypothesis)
Abstract: The historiography on the spread of Keynesian economics in Italy between the Two World Wars
moved from the hypotheses formulated by those who are to be considered the ‘forerunners’ of the
studies on this subject: Aurelio Macchioro and Giacomo Becattini.
After more than three decades, and basing on a review of the primary literature and on the analysis
of the evolution in historiography, this ‘critical’ reconsideration of Macchioro’s and Becattini’s arguments
aims to goes examine the reasons that made the reception of Keynesian economics so difficult
in Italy, underlining the multiple nature of the obstacles – both cultural, theoretical and social –
that it met in being accepted by the Italian economists
Classification-JEL: B22, B29
Keywords: keynesismo; corporativismo; Macchioro; Becattini
(Keynesianism; corporativism; Macchioro; Becattini)
Journal: Il Pensiero Economico Italiano
Pages: 33-49
Volume: 17
Issue: 2
Year: 2009
File-URL: http://www.libraweb.net/articoli.php?chiave=200906302&rivista=63
Handle: RePEc:pei:journl:v:17:y:2009:2:2:p:33-49