Economists served fascism by reestablishing the economics-politics divide

Evidence

To establish these policies, Il Duce astutely surrounded himself with economists who reestablished the barrier between the economic and the political that workers had dared to break. — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism, 193

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Fascism conserves obsolete bourgeois forms stripped of their economic basis — Theodor W. Adorno, Minima Moralia: Reflections from…, 30; The ‘pure economics’ rebrand removed democratic scrutiny from economic policy — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism, 31; A founding father of neoclassical economics was a committed fascist — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism, 199 (+9 more)