• DOI:10.1080/13563460600655581
• Corpus ID: 155046186

The political economy of fascism: Myth or reality, or myth and reality?

@article{Baker2006ThePE,
  title={The political economy of fascism: Myth or reality, or myth and reality?},
  author={David Baker},
  journal={New Political Economy},
  year={2006},
  volume={11},
  pages={227 - 250}
}

• D. Baker
• Published 1 June 2006
• Economics
• New Political Economy

No comparative study exists of fascist economic systems. Nor is this surprising. For one can legitimately doubt whether it is appropriate to use so distinctive a term as ‘system’ when discussing fascist economics . . . Nor, in the economic field, could fascism lay claim to any serious theoretical basis or to any outstanding economic theoreticians. Were fascist economics . . . anything more than a series of improvisations, of responses to particular and immediate problems? Were not the economic actions of any single fascist regime . . . so contradictory as to make it difficult to speak of a coherent and consistent economic policy in one country, let alone of a more general system.