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New Leoni Book : Law, Liberty, and .....
Instituto Bruno Leoni have just published a new collection of essays by Bruno Leoni, Law, Liberty, and the Competitive Market, edited by Carlo Lottieri
. In addition to an interesting foreword by Richard Epstein and introduction by Carlo Lottieri, the book contains English translations of several articles by Leoni, mostly originally published in Italian in the early 1960s.
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 "Law, Liberty, and the Competitive
Market" brings the clash between law and legislation to the attention
of economists and political scientists. It fills a void and offers a
series of texts that have not previously been translated into English.
This anthology connects various articles by Leoni on economics and law
with the objective of emphasizing how much Leoni's own theory in the
juridical environment was influenced by reflection on authors of the
Austrian school - from Carl Menger to Ludwig von Mises, from Friedrich
von Hayek to Murray N. Rothbard.The essays dealing with economics help
us understand how many of Leoni's positions were libertarian. A careful
reader of Mises, Leoni often ends up by assuming positions that are
even more anti-state than those of the Austrian economist (concerning
monopolies, for example). It is significant that in the 1960s his
thought was influenced by Rothbard. The very critiques that he
addresses to normativism and to analytical philosophy contain strong
ideological elements, as they move from the awareness that legal
positivism leads to statism and philosophical relativism to
acquiescence in the face of power.Studying the market economy, Leoni
perceives opposition between spontaneous order and planning. In this
way, he understands how such a contrast is significant for the origins
of norms. Leoni's idea of a law able to protect individual liberty has
its roots in the market. Thus, the market is at the same time the model
he uses to conceive the legal order and an institution fundamental for
the service of civilization, which the law is called to protect. This
is an important work by a figure only now being recognized as a pioneer
in the field of economics and an innovator in political theory.
About the Author
Bruno Leoni (1913-1967)
was an Italian classical-liberal political philosopher and attorney.
From 1942 until his death, he was a professor at the University of
Pavia. Leoni was also president of the Mount Pelerin Society and is
known as one of the fathers of the Law and Economics School. Carlo
Lottieri teaches philosophy of the law at the University of Siena and
is the director of the political theory department at Istituto Bruno
Leoni. He is the author of numerous articles appearing in journals such
as Telos and the Journal of Libertarian Studies.
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