STATE AND ECONOMY IN ITALY BEFORE THE ECONOMIC MIRACLE. ECONOMIC POLICY AND INTERNATIONAL CONSTRAINTS FROM THE RECONSTRUCTION THROUGH THE PRE-BOOM YEARS

this study examines upstate-market relationships throughout

the formative pre-boom 1950s by drawing on government

materials and parliamentary papers. I explore the making of

industrial policy in this decade through two steps: an overview of

industrial policy during the reconstruction period based on the

most recent research on those years, and an in-depth analysis of

the 1950s government intervention with a closer look at the

making of the Ministry for state shareholdings and the

reorganization of at-large state shareholdings through the

Christian Democracy political debate. My aim is to highlight both

continuity and change in industrial policy in light of politicians’

consensus policies.