Fascist and liberal economists both endorsed rule by apolitical experts

Evidence

Fascist and Liberal economists shared a belief in the power and good of a government made up of economic experts— a technocracy. Th ey also agreed that the policies necessary to ensure sound economic principles were neither political nor pursuant of any partisan interest; they were simply true. It is the role and the duty of experts to defi ne and implement them. — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order, 1171

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines the shared technocratic ethos that bridged Fascist and Liberal Italian economics — the belief that sound economic policy is natural truth, not politics.
• XREF: Resonates with the reader’s modern-neoliberalism thread: the same technocratic ‘no alternative’ framing recurs in contemporary austerity. — connects to: Liberal economists endorsed Mussolini to enforce austerity on Italy’s workers — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order: How Economists…, 656; Fascist Italy gave economists the rare chance to enforce their models on society — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order: How Economists…, 1303; Fascist-era economists saw their models as Platonic truths to impose on reality — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order: How Economists…, 1116 (+4 more)
• SEED: Article angle: why Italian Fascism and Liberalism converged on technocracy — the economists’ union with dictatorship as the founding template for later austerity regimes.

Broader Connections

• Liberal economists supported fascist austerity despite opposing dictatorship #corroborates (0.82) — Gary Mongiovi, Austerity Is an Antidemocratic Strategy…, 107
• Economists served fascism by reestablishing the economics-politics divide #expands (0.80) — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism, 193
• Foreign observers endorsed fascism through its claimed practical achievements #corroborates (0.75)