Alberto Mingardi is Associate Professor in History of Politi­cal Thought at IULM University in Milan. He is also the Director General of the Istituto Bruno Leoni in Turin, Italy, the think tank he helped to establish in 2003, and a Presidential Fellow at Chapman University in Orange, California. He holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Pavia. He has translated Antonio Rosmini’s The Constitution Under Social Justice, and edited critical Italian editions of works by Thomas Hodgskin, Elie Kedourie, Herbert Spencer, and Vilfredo Pareto. He regularly blogs at EconLog (link). His email address is alberto.mingardi@iulm.it.