Why Italy's Season of Economic Liberalism Did Not Last

Authors

Alberto Mingardi, Chapman UniversityFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

Spring 2021

Abstract

"Political events belong to 'the aimless and contingent movement of actual history' (Greenfeld 2018) and can be reduced to patterns only up to a point. I will, however, try to link the fading of Italian liberalism to two other phenomena on the brink of political ideas and practical politics: the cultural hegemony gained by Italian Communists and the blindness of Italian Christian Democrats to economic liberty."

Comments

This article was originally published in The Independent Review, volume 25, issue 4, in 2021.

Recommended Citation

Mingardi, Alberto. 2021. "Why Italy’s Season of Economic Liberalism Did Not Last." The Independent Review 25(4). https://www.independent.org/publications/tir/article.asp?id=1577

Peer Reviewed

1

Copyright

The Independent Review