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Jo Ann Cavallo

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Jo Ann Cavallo (Ph.D., Yale, 1987) is professor and chair of the Italian Department at Columbia University and an Associated Scholar of the Mises Institute. Her latest book, The World beyond Europe in the Romance Epics of Boiardo and Ariosto (2013), won the Modern Language Association’s Scaglione Publication Award for a Manuscript in Italian Literary Studies (2011).

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Call for Papers: Essays in Literary and Media Criticism in Memory of Paul A. Cantor

Media and Culture
07/14/2022Power & Market

Call for Papers: Essays in Austro-Libertarian Literary and Media Criticism for a volume in memory of Paul A. Cantor

The groundbreaking research of the late Paul A. Cantor (1945-2022), Clifton Waller Barrett Professor of English at the University of Virginia, ranged from...

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Pietro Marcello’s Martin Eden: The Man versus the State

Media and Culture

Blog01/01/2021

The Italian film director Pietro Marcello brings us a film that visibly moves the needle toward individualism and against collectivism in all its various manifestations.

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Feudalism and Cronyism in Machiavelli’s Italy

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12/22/2020Mises Daily Articles
Machiavelli asserts that civil society can best flourish in the absence of government intrusion.
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Feudalism and Cronyism in Machiavelli’s Italy

Legal SystemWorld HistoryPolitical Theory

12/22/2020Mises Media
Machiavelli asserts that civil society can best flourish in the absence of government intrusion.
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A Conversation with Lipton Matthews

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Blog11/16/2020

"While many academics in the developing world view economics as a zero-sum game, I never entertained the argument that wealth is necessarily due to exploitation."

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