Resumen de Agrarian Interests, Economic Institutions and the Role of the State.: Fascist Land Reclamation Projects and the Intellectual Trajectories of Arrigo Serpieri and Giuseppe Tassinari

Gaetano Sabatini , Valerio Torreggiani

• IntroductionThis article deals with the multi-layered historical evolution ofthe theoretical interpretation of the relations between State, societyand market in Fascist Italy, combining the history of economicthought with that of juridical ideas and utilizing instruments ofeconomic and institutional history as well. To understand such avast and complex issue, we decided to look at it from a specificvantage point, namely the theoretical and legislative tensions thatarose during the 1920s and the 1930s between Arrigo Serpieri andGiuseppe Tassinari, the economist-technicians who directed landreclamation plans under Fascism. In our opinion, this kind of in-quiry has the potential to uncover some of the major problems ofthe time, finding answers to big questions in relatively smallplaces.Those big questions correspond to the fundamental interrog-atives that essentially marked the entire century and relate closelyto the advent of industrial mass society permanently structured