Giving Credit to Dictatorship: Authoritarian Regimes and Financial Capitalism in Europe During the Twentieth Century

This edited volume explores the interplay between political, economic, and financial development in twentieth-century European authoritarian regimes.

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.