Francesco Tacchi

In the postwar period, the question of the forms and limits of State intervention in the economy aroused lively discussions in Italy and drew the attention also of members of the Society of Jesus. The paper examines the divergent views expressed in this regard by the Jesuit journals «La Civiltà Cattolica» and «Aggiornamenti Sociali»: although public initiative was admitted by both, it was regarded with strong diffidence in the Roman periodical, while it was judged more positively by the Milanese one...