The Bruno Leoni Institute , named after Bruno Leoni

Bruno Leoni

Bruno Leoni was an Italian classical-liberal political philosopher and lawyer.Besides being editor for the political science journal Il Politico, Leoni was also involved as secretary and later president of the Mont Pelerin Society...

, is an Italian libertarian

Libertarianism

Libertarianism, in the strictest sense, is the political philosophy that holds individual liberty as the basic moral principle of society. In the broadest sense, it is any political philosophy which approximates this view...

 non-profit organization promoting classical liberal

Classical liberalism

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 ideas in Italy

Italy

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 and in Europe

Europe

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.

IBL was founded in 2003 by Carlo Lottieri

Carlo Lottieri

Carlo Lottieri is an Italian free-market anarchist philosopher.- Life :He studied philosophy in Genoa and sociology at the Institut Universitaire d’Etudes Européennes at the University of Geneva and in Paris, where he obtained a D.E.A. and a Ph.D. at the Paris-Sorbonne University...

, Alberto Mingardi and Carlo Stagnaro. Based in Turin

Turin

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 and Milan

Milan

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, it organizes conferences and seminars in many Italian cities, publishes books, briefing papers and other works, and assists students at the undergraduate and graduate levels.

Sergio Ricossa, a libertarian economist who worked with Bruno Leoni, is the honorary president of IBL.

IBL is a member organization of the Cooler Heads Coalition

Cooler Heads Coalition

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 which claims that "the science of global warming is uncertain, but the negative impacts of global warming policies on consumers are all too real."

Main publications

• Alberto Mingardi (ed.), Mito e realtà dei monopoli
• Carlo Stagnaro - Margo Thorning, Più energia per tutti
• Alberto Mingardi - Paolo Zanetto, Colpirne uno per educarne cento. Il caso Microsoft e il futuro della concorrenza in Europa
• Silvio Boccalatte, La proprietà e la legge
• Antonio Martino, Milton Friedman
• Paolo Zanotto, Cattolicesimo, protestantesimo e capitalismo
• Bruno Leoni
  Bruno Leoni
  Bruno Leoni was an Italian classical-liberal political philosopher and lawyer.Besides being editor for the political science journal Il Politico, Leoni was also involved as secretary and later president of the Mont Pelerin Society...
  
  , La libertà del lavoro. Scritti su concorrenza, sciopero e serrata
• Nicola Iannello (ed.), La società senza Stato. I fondatori del pensiero libertario
• Carlo Lottieri
  Carlo Lottieri
  Carlo Lottieri is an Italian free-market anarchist philosopher.- Life :He studied philosophy in Genoa and sociology at the Institut Universitaire d’Etudes Européennes at the University of Geneva and in Paris, where he obtained a D.E.A. and a Ph.D. at the Paris-Sorbonne University...
  
  , Le ragioni del diritto. Libertà individuale e ordine giuridico nerl pensiero di Bruno Leoni
  Bruno Leoni
  Bruno Leoni was an Italian classical-liberal political philosopher and lawyer.Besides being editor for the political science journal Il Politico, Leoni was also involved as secretary and later president of the Mont Pelerin Society...
  
  
• Sergio Ricossa, La fine dell'economia