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Title: Beyond the controversy between Voluntarism and Naturalism: Fanfani’s Neo-voluntarism as an economic doctrine and a theory of history
Author: Ottonelli Omar
This paper aims at investigating Amintore Fanfani’s “neo-voluntaristic” approach, a point of view that takes the form of a mature theory of history and an equally mature economic vision and that, in Fanfani, represents the conclusion of a centuries-old route of improvement of the economic thought, whose historical reconstruction Fanfani had extensively studied during the 1930s and the 1940s. Due to the dialectical nature of this subject, the essay will substantially be divided in two parts: it will first outline the historical and economic neo-voluntaristic perspective we can infer from some of Fanfani’s studies from the late 1930s, and will then examine his most significant contributions to the history of economic thought — that is his early studies on the origin of the capitalist spirit and the ensuing ones about the history of economic doctrines, that will eventually provide a historiographical justification to neo-voluntarism itself. We believe that it is from these studies, and more in general from the neo-voluntaristic intuition that represents both a point of departure and arrival, that the features of Fanfani’s cultural character and the premises of his later political commitment most clearly emerge.
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