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The ideal of good government in Luigi Einaudi's Thought and Life: Between Law and Freedom

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I will argue here that Einaudi's thought reveals an awareness that the question of freedom has to do with two inter-related problems: the relation of individuals or communities with their respective limits and the question of going beyond these limits. Limits are to be understood here in the meaning of the foundation or conditions of possibility both of institutions (economic, political and juridical) and of thought and human action.

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  • Silvestri, Paolo, 2012. "The ideal of good government in Luigi Einaudi's Thought and Life: Between Law and Freedom," MPRA Paper 55351, University Library of Munich, Germany.
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    Keywords

    Good government; Institutions; Law; Freedom; Oikonomia; Rule of law; Authority; liberalism; Luigi Einaudi;
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    JEL classification:

    • B31 - Schools of Economic Thought and Methodology - - History of Economic Thought: Individuals - - - Individuals
    • H1 - Public Economics - - Structure and Scope of Government
    • Y80 - Miscellaneous Categories - - Related Disciplines - - - Related Disciplines

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