Lancaster University Management School Working Paper 1999/005 Networks, power and politics: The power of business in Britain and Italy before and during the interwar period in comparative perspective Mary Brennan Rose and Andrea Colli The Department of Economics Lancaster University Management School Lancaster LA1 4YX UK ©Mary Brennan Rose and Andrea Colli All rights reserved. Short sections of text, not to exceed two paragraphs, may be quoted without explicit permission, provided that full acknowledgement is given. The LUMS Working Papers series can be accessed at http://www.lums.lancs.ac.uk LUMS home page: http://www.lums.lancs.ac.uk/