Italians deserve to cast their votes for whomever they like, without getting an international lecture about their supposed "fascism."
Alberto Mingardi
Good economic arguments do not make the science subordinate to this or that political goal, but help us better understand the riddles of economic life.
The Great Reversal argues that the EU learned the lessons of 20th-century market successes better than the US did.
Even laissez-faire policies need to be, at some point, engineered by some reformers.
Stephen Davies on the institutions and power relations that were key to the formation of Western civilization.
At best, scholars often view Spencer as a magnificent dinosaur, at worst a grumpy phantom of Christmas past—this is a mistake.
Leoni wanted to advance the concept of the “certainty” of the law beyond the mere verbal precision of statutes to something more profound.
A two-party partnership of extremes whose common denominator is a cavalier attitude toward government spending and debt.
Alberto Mingardi is Director General of the Italian free-market think tank, Istituto Bruno Leoni. He is also associate professor of the history of political thought at IULM University in Milan and a Presidential Scholar in Political Theory at Chapman University. He is also an adjunct fellow at the Cato Institute. He blogs at EconLog.