Lorenzo Castellani is Tenure Track Researcher in History of Political Institutions at Luiss Guido Carli University, Rome, Italy. He is a political analyst for national and international media. He also published The History of the United States Civil Service: From the Postwar Years to the Twenty-First Century (Routledge, 2021) and The Rise of Managerial Bureaucracy: Reforming the British Civil Service (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018).

• Introduction 1. Beneduce’s Intellectual Education: Statistician, Scholar and Economic Thinker 2. The Architect of the Institutions. The First Steps: War, Insurance and Assistance 3. The Political Career of Alberto Beneduce: from Socialism and Reformism to Fascism 4. The Institutional Transformation of the Italian Economy 5. The Economic Dictator of Italy 6. Power, Independence, and Institutional Leadership. The Last Years Conclusions: The Long and Complex Legacy of Alberto Beneduce

Lorenzo Castellani is Tenure Track Researcher in History of Political Institutions at Luiss Guido Carli University, Rome, Italy. He is a political analyst for national and international media. He also published The History of the United States Civil Service: From the Postwar Years to the Twenty-First Century (Routledge, 2021) and The Rise of Managerial Bureaucracy: Reforming the British Civil Service (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018).

• Introduction 1. Beneduce’s Intellectual Education: Statistician, Scholar and Economic Thinker 2. The Architect of the Institutions. The First Steps: War, Insurance and Assistance 3. The Political Career of Alberto Beneduce: from Socialism and Reformism to Fascism 4. The Institutional Transformation of the Italian Economy 5. The Economic Dictator of Italy 6. Power, Independence, and Institutional Leadership. The Last Years Conclusions: The Long and Complex Legacy of Alberto Beneduce

Lorenzo Castellani is Tenure Track Researcher in History of Political Institutions at Luiss Guido Carli University, Rome, Italy. He is a political analyst for national and international media. He also published The History of the United States Civil Service: From the Postwar Years to the Twenty-First Century (Routledge, 2021) and The Rise of Managerial Bureaucracy: Reforming the British Civil Service (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018).

• Introduction 1. Beneduce’s Intellectual Education: Statistician, Scholar and Economic Thinker 2. The Architect of the Institutions. The First Steps: War, Insurance and Assistance 3. The Political Career of Alberto Beneduce: from Socialism and Reformism to Fascism 4. The Institutional Transformation of the Italian Economy 5. The Economic Dictator of Italy 6. Power, Independence, and Institutional Leadership. The Last Years Conclusions: The Long and Complex Legacy of Alberto Beneduce