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Fascist Italy's Experiment With Economic Corporatism

What if the economy were organized in corporations, one for each trade and industry, each including owners and workers?

What if the economy were organized in corporations, one for each trade and industry, each including owners and workers? Would capitalism's fierce competition and wasteful failures be replaced by a cooperatively managed system?

As world economies struggled to recover from the Great Depression in the summer of 1933, politicians looked for alternatives to free-market capitalism.