Lo Stato

{{Short description|Italian political and finance magazine (1930-1943)}}

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Lo Stato (Italian: The State) was a monthly political and finance magazine which existed in the Fascist Italy between 1930 and 1943. Its subtitle was Rivista di scienze politiche e giuridiche.{{cite web|title=Lo Stato rivista di scienze politiche e giuridiche|url=http://digitale.bnc.roma.sbn.it/tecadigitale/giornale/TO00195859/1938/unico/00000007|publisher=Biblioteca nazionale centrale di Roma|access-date=4 November 2022|language=it}}{{cite book|author=Luca Michelini|editor1=Massimo M. Augello|editor2=Marco E.L. Guidi|editor3=Fabrizio Bientinesi|title=An Institutional History of Italian Economics in the Interwar Period|year=2020

|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan|location=Cham|isbn=978-3-030-38331-2|pages=44–45|chapter-url=https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-38331-2_2

|volume=II|chapter=From Nationalism to Fascism: Protagonists and Journals|doi=10.1007/978-3-030-38331-2_2|s2cid=219808630}}

History and profile

Lo Stato was started in Rome in 1930. Its founders were Ettore Rosboch and Carlo Costamagna.{{cite journal

|issue=1|author=Gianpasquale Santomassimo|title=Ugo Spirito e il corporativismo|journal=Studi Storici|date=January–March 1993|volume=14|page=98 |jstor=20564039}} Of them the former was a leading economist. The magazine was published first bimonthly, but from 1931 its frequency was switched to monthly.

Its major contributors were the Italian economists, including Celestino Arena, Gino Arias, Gino Borgatta, Giuseppe Bottai, Gustavo Del Vecchio, Giuseppe Ugo Papi and Franco Modigliani.{{cite book|author1=Francesca Dal Degan|author2=Fabrizio Simon

|editor1=Massimo M. Augello|editor2=Marco E.L. Guidi|editor3=Fabrizio Bientinesi|title=An Institutional History of Italian Economics in the Interwar Period|year=2019|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan|location=Cham|pages=146–147|chapter-url=https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-32980-8_6|chapter=“Generalist” Journals between Dissemination of Economics and Regime Propaganda

|volume=1|doi=10.1007/978-3-030-32980-8_6|isbn=978-3-030-32979-2|s2cid=213105744}} eBook: {{ISBN|978-3-030-32980-8}} Lo Stato defined fascism as a dictatorship and totalitarian regime which was superior than both liberalism and communism. Contributors of the magazine, particularly Carl Schmitt, provided a theory of the totalitarian state.

Lo Stato folded in 1943.

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