Fascist social spending stagnated until the Ethiopian war raised total outlays

Evidence

55 Social expenditure lagged at around the 1931 level (1.2 percent of nominal GDP) until 1936, when it jumped up to almost 2 percent. Th ese were the years of the Ethiopian war, when total public spending jumped to 37.9 percent in 1935 and 44.9 percent in 1936. — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order, 1709

Categorization

• XREF: The pattern of welfare lagging while military/war spending surges echoes across authoritarian and neoliberal fiscal regimes. — connects to: Fascist austerity dismantled postwar gains and re-separated economics from politics — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism: An Intervention, 193; Italian war spending expanded state economic control at an unprecedented scale — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order: How Economists…, 131; Fascism reimposed the economic-political divide that workers had breached — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order: How Economists…, 583

Broader Connections

• Italian war spending expanded state economic control at an unprecedented scale #expands (0.82) — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order, 131
• Fascist austerity dismantled postwar gains and re-separated economics from politics #expands (0.78) — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism, 193
• Fascism reimposed the economic-political divide that workers had breached #expands (0.72) — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order, 583