The Italian National Insurance Institute Monopoly in the International Debate

This text offers a historical and financial perspective on an economic and political episode which took place in Italy in the early twentieth century. Using primary archive sources, the author has reconstructed the international European disputes that took place in the aftermath of the creation of the National Insurance Institute (INA) by which the Italian State assumed for about a decade a quasi-monopolistic role in the life insurance market. This constitutes an interesting international debate both from the point of view of the relationship between public and private in the insurance sector, and for those who want to deepen the Italian political and financial history of the period in which the role of the "entrepreneurial state" began to emerge.