Alberto Mingardi

Alberto Mingardi

ALBERTO MINGARDI is an Assistant Professor in History of Political Thought at IULM University of Milan. He is also the Director General of the Istituto Bruno Leoni, Milan and Turin, Italy, a free market think tank. He holds a PhD in Political Science from University of Pavia. He is an author and journalist and focuses on classic liberalism in economic thought. He is also an adjunct scholar with Cato Institute, Washington, D.C.

THE POVERTY OF TRANSFERS: ON P. T. BAUER AND CAPITAL FUNDAMENTALISM

P. T. Bauer (1915–2002) is a Hungarian that his countrymen should remember and honour. One day, he will be celebrated as a great economist of the 20th century and a gallant figure who opposed the consensus. His father was a bookie in Budapest. One day “one of his clients suggested