The Underrated Bruno Leoni (with Michael Munger)

EconTalk

Library of Economics and Liberty

Ethics, Philosophy, Economics, Books, Science, Business, Courses, Social Sciences, Society & Culture, Interviews, Education, History

4.7 • 4.3K Ratings

🗓️ 30 September 2024

⏱️ 78 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Friedrich Hayek credited Bruno Leoni with shaping his ideas on laws and legislation. James Buchanan said that Leoni identified problems that led to his own work on public choice. How is it possible, then, that so few of us know of the groundbreaking Italian political philosopher? Listen as Duke economist Michael Munger talks with EconTalk's Russ Roberts about Leoni's ideas and the gruesome murder that ended his life before its time.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Welcome to Econ Talk, Conversations for the Curious, part of the Library of Economics and Liberty.
0:07.8	I'm your host Russ Roberts of Shalem College in Jerusalem and Stanford University's Hoover Institution. Go to Econ Talk. in to today's conversation. You'll also find our archives with every episode we've done
0:24.5	going back to 2006. Our email address is mail at econ talk.org we'd love to hear from you. Today is September 4, 2024, and my guest is Mike Munger of Duke University.
0:42.0	This is Mike Munger of Duke University.
0:44.1	This is Mike's 48th appearance on Econ Talk.
0:48.1	48, that's 12 times 4.
0:50.6	That's amazing. He was last year in June of 2024 talking about government failure and market failure.
0:59.0	Our topic for today is Bruno Leone, his life and his ideas.
1:07.7	Bruno Leone was a political economist
1:09.8	you may not have heard of.
1:10.8	We're gonna base our conversation on an essay of mics, part of a series in the independent
1:16.0	review on under-appreciated economists.
1:19.9	Before we start, I want to mention this episode may involve some adult themes
1:22.9	parents listening with children may want to screen it accordingly.
1:25.6	Mike welcome back to econ talk.
1:28.2	Thanks Russ it's a pleasure. So who was Bruno Leone? Let's start with his life which is surprisingly
1:35.2	eventful for an economist. Well and relatively brief
1:40.1	tragically but we'll get to that. So he was born in 1913. He died in 1967 in a sensational
1:49.1	murder. Alberto Mengardi, who is the head of the Bruno Leone Institute in Milan, described him as having a frenetic life.
2:01.0	Lione did his studies in Torino. fren
2:05.0	and got and he he studied law and he studied law and the state and so the state and so the it's kind of a different set of categories for academic disciplines in Italy.
2:19.3	He ended up with, he had an academic chair at the University of Pavie. He was quite a successful academic,
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Library of Economics and Liberty, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Library of Economics and Liberty and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.