Governare lo sviluppo: il PCI e la programmazione economica negli anni Sessanta

Abstract

Despite its previous growth, at the beginning of the Sixties, Italian economy was burned with the exacerbation of its historical imbalances and the coming of new ones. Economic planning and economic policies become a key issue of the Italian political debate, in order to promote and rule a new wave of development. This essay aims to describe the theoretical reflection inside the Italian Communist Party: as part of a set of “structural reforms” (Togliatti), the idea of planning i salso part of the new strategy of the party, the “Italian way to socialism”, adopted during the eighth congress in 1956

Keywords: Economic planning; Socialism; Togliatti; Italian capitalism.