Zaccarias Lilies

The aim is to reconstruct how the thought of Wilhelm Röpke, a notable figure of the Freiburg School, did or did not influence the origins and development of Italian liberalism and economic liberalism. Röpke will be compared with the leading Italian exponents of these positions: Croce, Antoni, Leoni, Cattani, Carandini, Gentile, Einaudi, and Rossi. There is also an attempt to place Italian liberal and pro-market thought within the debate of the emerging neoliberal movement, from the Walter Lippmann Colloquium in Paris in 1938 to the founding of the Mont Pèlerin Society in 1947.