Giving Credit to Dictatorship

Valerio Torreggiani is Research Fellow at the Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon. He is the author of several works on the history of capitalism, organized interests, and corporatism in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, such as Corporatism in Early Twentieth-Century Britain (2022), Uniformità, frammentazione e conflitto (2022) and Capitalismo e regime fascista (2024). José Luís Cardoso is Research Professor at the Institute of Social Sciences of the University of Lisbon, Portugal. He is author and editor of several books on the Portuguese history of economic thought from a comparative perspective, with special emphasis on the study of the processes of diffusion and assimilation of economic ideas.

Preface Authoritarianism and Financial Capitalism in Twentieth Century Europe: An Introduction 1. Convergence in decay. Primo de Rivera and the new Catalan banking elite, 1925-1931 2. Portugal in a Greek mirror: the failed attempt of a foreign loan supported by the League of Nations 1927-1928 3. Dictatorship, authoritarian regime, and the banking sector in Yugoslavia during the 1930s 4. The political economy of currency devaluation and trade balance: Italy, 1930s 5. The Bank of Italy Goes to War: Financing Fascist Warfare, 1935-1943 6. Banca Commerciale Italiana and the re-establishment of Italy’s international economic relations after the sanctions, 1936-1940 7. Support the Devil. The involvement of German banks in the NS-politics from the occupation to the Final Solution 8. More repression in a repressed world: the Spanish financial sector during the Franco regime, 1939-1975 9. Dictatorial rule and macroeconomic management: Greece, 1967-1974 10. The Making of the Transformation of Turkey between 1980 and 1983