Carlo Costamagna
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Carlo Costamagna (21 September 1881, in Quiliano – 1 March 1965, in Pietra Ligure) was an Italian lawyer and academic noted as a theorist of corporatism. He worked closely with Benito Mussolini and his fascist movement.
After studying law, Costamagna joined the fascist movement in 1920 and in 1924 was appointed National Secretary of Technical Councils.[1] Politically Costamagna was highly conservative and saw fascism as a transitory phase that existed only for the imposition of corporatism.[1] On this point he had a long-running intellectual debate with Sergio Panunzio who was a strong supporter of the fascist state as an end in itself rather than just a means to economic change.[1] He edited his own journal, Lo Stato, which he founded in 1930.[2]
Academic career
As an academic he was appointed Professor of Corporate Law at the University of Ferrara in 1927, going on to hold similar posts at the University of Pisa and the University of Rome.[1] His corporatist theories were strongly influenced by the statism of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel.[3]
