Zaccarias Gigli

The aim is to reconstruct how the thought of Wilhelm Röpke, a distinguished member of the Freiburg School, did or did not influence the genesis and development of Italian liberalism and economic liberalism. Röpke will be compared with the leading Italian figures in these positions: Croce, Antoni, Leoni, Cattani, Carandini, Gentile, Einaudi, and Rossi. Furthermore, the intention is to attempt to insert Italian liberal and economic liberal thought into the debate of the nascent neoliberal movement, which ranges from the Walter Lippmann Colloquium in Paris in 1938 to the foundation of the Mont Pèlerin Society in 1947.