Alberto Mingardi is Director General of the Italian free-market think tank, Istituto Bruno Leoni. He is also associate professor of the history of political thought at IULM University in Milan and a Presidential Scholar in Political Theory at Chapman University. He is an adjunct fellow at the Cato Institute. He blogs at EconLog. He recently published Classical Liberalism and the Industrial Working Class: The Economic Thought of Thomas Hodgskin (Routledge, 2020) and, with Deirdre McCloskey, The Myth of the Entrepreneurial State (AIER, 2020).