Case Study #2

Was there an identifiable political economy in the Italian and German regimes, or simply the economics of state crisis management and Autarkic military preparation?

Essential Readings

David Baker: Taft Seminar Presentation #4: Regime Fascism a comparative analysis. (Link)

S J. Wolfe (Ed) The Nature of Fascism, Random House, New York, 1968. (Part 3 'Fascism and the Economy' (link above).  

Ian Kershaw: The Nazi Dictatorship: Problems and Perspectives of Interpretation, Fourth Edition, Arnold, London, 2000, (Chapter 3 -  link above)

David Baker:  'The Political Economy of Fascism: Myth or Reality: or Myth and Reality?' New Political Economy  Volume 11, Number 2, June 2006. pp. 227-250. (Link above)

Extra Readings

Christoph Buchheim and Jonas Schemerhe: 'The Role of Private Property in the Nazi Economy: The Case of Industry', University of Mannheim, 2008. (see link to paper above).

Carles S Maier In Search of Stability: Explorations in Historical Political Economy, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1987. (Chapters 1 and 2). 

Tim Mason: 'The Primacy of Politics - Politics and Economics in National Socialist Germany', in Henry A. Turner, ed., Nazism and the Third Reich (New York, 1972). pp. 175-200. 

Roger Eatwell: 'Towards a New Model of Generic Fascism', Journal of Theoretical Politics, 4(2) (1992). (especially pp. 174-85 and 189-90).