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Author-Name: Omar Ottonelli
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Author-Workplace-Name: University of Florence - Department of Science for Economics and Business
Title: Beyond Voluntarism and Naturalism: Amintore Fanfani's Neo-Voluntarism as an Economic Doctrine and a Theory of History 
Abstract: This paper aims at investigating Amintore Fanfani’s Neo-Voluntaristic approach, a point of view that
takes the form of a mature theory of history and an equally mature economic vision and that, in Fanfani,
represents the conclusion of a centuries-old route of improvement of the economic thought,
whose historical reconstruction Fanfani had extensively studied during the 1930s and the 1940s. The
paper will first outline the Neo-Voluntaristic perspective we can infer from Fanfani’s studies from the
late 1930s, and will then examine his most significant contributions to the history of economic thought
– that is his early studies on the origin of the capitalist spirit and the ensuing ones about the history
of economic doctrines, that will eventually provide a historiographical justification to Neo-Voluntarism
itself. We believe that it is from these studies that the features of Fanfani’s cultural character
and the premises of his later political commitment most clearly emerge
Classification-JEL: B00, B31, B40, N01
Keywords: Amintore Fanfani; voluntarism; naturalism; Neo-Voluntarism; economic institutionalism; corporatism; economic thought; economic doctrines
Journal: Il Pensiero Economico Italiano
Pages: 125-149
Volume: 24
Issue: 2
Year: 2016
File-URL: http://www.libraweb.net/articoli.php?chiave=201606302&rivista=63
Handle: RePEc:pei:journl:v:24:y:2016:2:9:p:125-149