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The Capital Order 2022
The Capital Order: How Economists Invented Austerity and Paved the Way to Fascism is a 2022 book written by Italian political economist Clara Mattei. It tells the story of how government and industry efforts in Italy and the United Kingdom applied austerity programs in the 20th century to protect capitalist economies against social disorder, contributing to fascism's rise. The book received the 2023 Herbert Baxter Adams Prize for an author’s first book "on European history from 1815 through the 20th century".
Details
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- ISBN
- 9780226818399
- Pages
- 452
