that he could not migrate, and it was the Journal. The Mortara's impulse was to suppress it." Mortara wrote: "I hope to see Beneduce within one month and convert him to the thesis of euthanasia for the Giornale degli economisti. It seems to me the only dignified solution: hara-kiri in Japanese. " A statement addressed to subscribers was added to the November–December 1938 issue. It announced the ceasing of publication. As a justification on the last page a communication read: "the work of Italian economists was lost in recent years, in too many review journals." Still the same communication announced that Mortara and the journal management board had authorized Bocconi University to add to its Annali di economia the subtitle Giornale degli economisti. But many economists close to the Fascist regime intended to take over the journal. The most interested seem to be three intellectuals close to the regime: Alberto De Stefani, Luigi Amoroso and Felice Vinci. The three ran the Rivista italiana di scienze economiche which, since its founding years in the thirties, had not been particularly fortunate. Therefore the opportunity to merge it with Giornale degli economisti seemed very attractive. The journal in De Stefani's plans was supposed to become the organ of a newly formed economic society that he would direct. However, the intervention of Giovanni Gentile, vice president of Bocconi University during those years, with his authority would ward off De Stefani's plans. Gentile had moved following an opposite plan compared to the operation imagined by Mortara. In the merger of the Giornale degli economisti and Annali di economia the former would no longer have to cease publication, but the latter. The Giornale degli economisti would be transferred, free of any charge, to Bocconi University. Thereby safeguarding the name of the journal with the longest tradition and providing a solution preserving its independence and scientific rigor. The first to accept the plan was Del Vecchio, followed by Mortara and Beneduce. The more reluctant to accept was the daughter of Pantaleoni, still co-owner of the journal, who stubbornly defended closing the journal as the best way to defend her father's journal from fascist ambitions. Equally important was the strong support of the operation by Bocconi University Rector Giovanni Demaria, who directed the new series starting in 1939, now called Giornale degli economisti' e Annali di economia. New series (Bocconi University) The first months of the new series