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Alberto Mingardi

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Alberto Mingardi, Associate Professor of the History of Political Thought at IULM University in Milan, is Director-General of the Istituto Bruno Leoni, a think tank in Milan.

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  1. Pareto and the Roots of Politics
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    Pareto and the Roots of Politics

    Aug 15, 2023 Alberto Mingardi marks the centenary of the polymath’s death by recounting his insights into political behavior.

  2. Italy's Consumer-Blind Trustbusting
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    Italy's Consumer-Blind Trustbusting

    Dec 16, 2021 Alberto Mingardi sees no consideration for the traditional antitrust benchmark in a recent ruling against Amazon.

  3. Industrial Planning Did Not Deliver the COVID Vaccines
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    Industrial Planning Did Not Deliver the COVID Vaccines

    May 12, 2021 Deirdre Nansen McCloskey & Alberto Mingardi argue that private-sector trial and error, not the state, is the driving force behind innovation.

  4. Predatory Competition Policy

    Predatory Competition Policy

    Nov 1, 2007 Alberto Mingardi & Wayne Crews

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    Ensuring Europe’s Supply of Critical Minerals

    Rüya Perincek & Andreas Goldthau call for coordinated funding, resource diplomacy, and secondary material partnerships to boost recycling.
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    Readying the Resistance, Again

    Laura Tyson & Lenny Mendonca

    The United States is not a monarchy, but a federal republic. States and cities controlled by Democrats represent half the country, and they can resist Donald Trump’s overreach by using the tools of progressive federalism, many of which were sharpened during his first administration.

     see Democrat-controlled states as a potential check on Donald Trump’s far-right agenda.
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    Russia’s Nostalgia Machine

    Nina L. Khrushcheva explores how the Kremlin relies on an idealized version of the past to comfort – and subdue – the public.
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    The Trade Shifts Redefining Economic Development

    Pinelopi Koujianou Goldberg & Michele Ruta consider the long-term implications of three major trends that could reshape globalization.
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    Trump at the Gates

    Joschka Fischer urges Europeans to recognize that they are now on their own in an increasingly dangerous world.
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    The End of Progress?

    Joseph E. Stiglitz

    Though the United States has long led the world in advancing basic science and technology, it is hard to see how this can continue under President Donald Trump and the country’s ascendant oligarchy. America’s rejection of Enlightenment values will have dire consequences.

     predicts that Donald Trump’s second administration will be defined by its rejection of Enlightenment values.
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    China’s Trump Dilemma

    Yanis Varoufakis thinks the real choice facing Chinese leaders may be whether to challenge the dollar's hegemony head-on.
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    The Key to Narrowing the Development Gap

    Pascal Lamy, et al. explain how investments in African agri-food systems can advance many of the Sustainable Development Goals.
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    Economists’ Way Out of the Wilderness

    James K. Galbraith argues that the continued dominance of nineteenth-century thinking has resulted in a catalogue of failure.

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