The Great War triggered extensive nationalization in Britain and Italy

Evidence

Th e impact of the Great War could not have been imagined before it actually happened. Britain— the major capitalist economy up until the war— experienced extensive nationalization of the means of production, and young capitalist countries like Italy followed in its footsteps. — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order, 188

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: WWI forced Britain and Italy to abandon free-market doctrine for state intervention — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order: How Economists…, 214; World War I turned British and Italian states into their economies’ chief producers — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order: How Economists…, 215; World War I compelled Britain and Italy to subordinate private profit to political need — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order: How Economists…, 107 (+5 more)

Broader Connections

• Britain’s wartime nationalizations were unprecedented and imitated by Italy #corroborates (0.95)
• World War I enormously strengthened and concentrated Italian industrial capital #expands (0.80) — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 86
• Italian war spending expanded state economic control at an unprecedented scale #expands (0.80) — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order, 131
• Italy entered the war far weaker industrially than Britain #qualifies (0.75) — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order, 119