In “The Making of the State,” Prof. Modugno shows that even as the state was coming into being, historians and scholars understood that it was something new and different and that the state is central to what we now call “modernity,” which is defined by the overwhelming power of states.
Roberta A. Modugno
Dr. Roberta Adelaide Modugno is a Fellow of the Mises Institute and professor of History of Political Thought at Roma Tre University. She published several books, essays, and articles in Italy and abroad. She edited Rothbard versus the Philosophers. Unpublished Writings on Hayek, Mises, Strauss and Polanyi (Mises Institute, 2009). She is now working on the crisis of democracy and on a critical edition of a selection of Rothbard’s Papers.
