F.A Hayek is one of the most important and influential advocates of liberalism in the 20th century. His theory is famously based on the concept of spontaneous order, an order emerging from the interaction of individuals without central control and appears critical of every form of...

Italian Abstract: Scopo di questo saggio è interrogare il dibattito Croce-Einaudi sul rapporto tra liberismo e liberalismo in termini categoriali: a cosa pensano quando si riferiscono a ciò che del liberalismo è l’economico, l’etico, il giuridico e/o il politico? Cosa si sta difendendo...

Italian Abstract: Mosca, Ruffini ed Einaudi vennero da molti riconosciuti come “Maestri di libertà”, soprattutto in virtù della loro strenua difesa della libertà durante il consolidamento del regime fascista. In questo articolo miro a ricostruire l’idea di libertà che emerse nelle loro...

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Italian abstract: In questo saggio intendo rileggere, disarticolare e problematizzare il dibattito Einaudi-Croce sul rapporto tra liberismo e liberalismo muovendo da una prospettiva epistemologica lato sensu costruttivista, volta a mostrare l’insufficienza esplicativa della dicotomia...

The economic development is not exclusively a contemporary reality but a feature of historical systems and eras in general. This aspect was also observed by Romanian economic school representatives, like Mihail Manoilescu, Gheorghe N. Leon, N.P. Arcadian. The present paper aims to be an insight...

José Alonso López is among the most suggestive figures of the first Spanish liberalism. Some of the most outstanding features in his thought are the object of this article: the links between political and economic liberalism; his criticisms to economic abstractions detached from factual...

Keynes: the economic liberalism as a myth - This paper aims at highlighting Keynes main arguments in his criticism of economic liberalism, conceived of as the theories and the praxis of economic policy adopted by the mainstream thinkers in the field of economics and symbolically based on the...

This is the general relation held by the author at the Conference on "Epicarmo Corbino, economista, ministro, politico", organized in Naples, 3-5 June, 2010, by the Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici. It traces a scientific portrait of this Italian liberal economist, who played an...

This paper undertakes to make some comparative observations on the thought of Murray N. Rothbard and Leo Strauss. It hinges around Rothbard and Strauss’s different views on such subjects as the philosophy of Hobbes, Locke and Hume, the meaning of natural law, natural rights, and natural...