Bruno Leoni

Articles

Two Views of Liberty, Occidental and Oriental (?)

02/13/2009 Libertarian Papers Bruno Leoni

You may have noticed that I put a question mark after the title of this paper. I must explain why. When our friend professor Matsushita suggested this subject for our Tokyo meeting, my first impulse...

On A Recent Theory of “Legal Obligation”

02/13/2009 Libertarian Papers Bruno Leoni

May I start by summarizing professor Hart’s essay in a few words. On one hand the author analyses the concept of law by resorting first to the classical concept of “obligation.” On the other, he tries...

On Mathematical Thinking in Economics

07/30/2014 Journal of Libertarian Studies Bruno Leoni

The interest of scholars in the application of mathematics to the social sciences is particularly lively at the present time. This is especially true in economics, as well as in such allied...

Publications

Freedom and the Law

06/15/1961 Bruno Leoni

Bruno Leoni was surely the most important Italian free market thinker of the second half of the 20th century. Here we have an outstanding analysis of the relationship between law and freedom, one that follows up on Bastiat and, many argue, exceeds

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