How successful were BM's economy policies?

Question 1

Tannenbaum

Answer 1

“Economically F was a failure”

• The most ideological innovation, the CS, did nothing to reduce class antagonisms/ improve class differences
• became self sufficient in wheat at expense of the rest of her agriculture
• IRI function: perform a salvage operation, not to stimulate economic growth
• Italy’s performance worse than any other country
• main reason for this poor performance: italy was poorer to begin with and F hindered its economic growth
• national income retarded by restrictive cartels, discouragement of urban growth, the BfG, the spread of autarky and promotion of war industry

Question 2

Scalia

Answer 2

• F economic policies had their failures, particularly in agriculture and the field of wages
• BUT those policies also stimulated important modern industries such as electricity, steel, chemicals and artificial fibres.
• FI’s profile began to resemble that of modern European countries to a greater degree than in the past

Question 3

Vajda

Answer 3

• Under F rule, Italy underwent rapid capitalist development:
• electrification of the whole country
• blossoming of automobile and silk industries

-Italy’s rapid progress after WW1 would have been impossible w/o the social processes begun during Fascist period.