Introduction

Economic Science and Corporatism: The School of Corporatist Sciences of Pisa

Starting from the analysis of the institutional architecture of the first School of Corporative Sciences among those created by the...

The Distress of Italian Commercial Banks in 1926-1936: A New Dataset From Supervision Archives

This paper documents a new dataset on the distress of Italian joint-stock banks in 1926-1936. It employs classified information from...

Savings and Social Policy in the Fascist Parastate: The Istituto Nazionale Delle Assicurazioni and the Campaign for Universal Corporative Insurance, 1929-1939

During the Italian interwar period, the Istituto Nazionale delle Assicurazioni (INA), a state insurance company, opened up a large national...

Fiscal Sources and the Distribution of Income In Italy: The Italian Historical Taxpayers’ Database

This paper documents the ongoing construction of the Italian Historical Taxpayers’ Database (IHTD), currently consisting of 1,593,563 micro-records of income...

Introduction: Some Thoughts on the History of ‘European’ Liberalism

The essays in this special issue centre around the notion of ‘European’ liberal thought and its relationship with ‘national’ liberal...

The Deus ex Machina of Liberal Internationalism: The Greek Empire, the British Commonwealth and the League of Nations in the Thought of Alfred E. Zimmern and Gilbert Murray

The aim of the article is to analyse the League of Nations as an attempt to formulate the British hegemonic...

Teutonic Freedom: Racial Liberalism among the Anglo-German Victorians

The late Charles W. Smith, among others, identified the racial component of European/Western Liberalism. What he referred to as “racial...

Ernst Elsenhans (1815-1849): Lost Ideas about Social-Liberal State Building and an International State System in the Revolution of 1848-1849

The essay deals with the revolutionary Ernst Elsenhans, who was shot in 1849 at the age of just 33. He...

Thomas Mann, Paul Valéry, José Ortega Y Gasset and Democratic Liberalism. From Criticism to Defence, between Politics and Ethics

During the interwar period, a number of famous writers involved in the debate on the idea of Europe shifted from...