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Alberto Mingardi

Full professor
Alberto Mingardi

Proxy to Institutional Relations and the Territory

Department of Humanities
Faculty of Arts and Tourism
Alberto Mingardi

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Individual tutorials will be held via Skype by appointment to be arranged in advance by e-mail.

CURRENT POSITION:

Full Professor in “History of Political Thought”.
He holds a PhD in Political Science from University of Pavia and did research work in “History of Political Thought” at the University of Milan. He was Assistant Professor in “History of Political Thought”  and then Associate Professor at IULM.
He published monographs on F.A. Hayek (2020), Herbert Spencer (2011) and Thomas Hodgskin (2016 and 2020). With Deirdre N. McCloskey, he authored “The Myth of the Entrepreneurial State” (2020). With Maria Blanco, he edited “Show and Biz. The market economy in TV series and popular culture (2000-2020)” (2023), one of the first investigation of economic narratives in pop culture.

He translated into English, Antonio Rosmini, The Constitution Under Social Justice (Lexington Books, 2003). He edited critical editions of works by Richard Cobden (“Scritti e discorsi politici”, 2022), Thomas Hodgskin (“Crimine e potere”, 2014), Herbert Spencer (“L’uomo contro lo Stato”, 2016) and Vilfredo Pareto (“L’ignoranza e il malgoverno”, 2018). With Luigi Marco Bassani, he authored a textbook in “History of Political Thought” (“Dalla polis allo Stato. Introduzione alla storia del pensiero politico”, 20015/2017). He is a member of several editorial boards.
He is Presidential Scholar in Political Theory at Chapman University in Orange, CA.
He writes frequently for the popular press. He is one of the founders of the Istituto Bruno Leoni, a think-tank in Turin, and an Adjunct Scholar of the Cato Institute in Washington DC. He is the Secretary of the Mont Pelerin Society, an international association of scholars in the classical liberal tradition of thought.

RESEARCH LINES:

19th century British liberalism, 19th century Italian liberalism, nationalism, popular literature and political thought.

DISCIPLINARY GROUP:

14/B1 - Storia delle dottrine politiche e delle istituzioni politiche - SPS/02 - Storia delle dottrine politiche

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