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Luigi Einaudi (1874-1961) was a liberal thinker, a leading economist and journalist, and one of the most eminent political figures in the pantheon of Italy’s founding fathers: a member of the Constituent Assembly, governor of the Bank of Italy, minister for the Budget and first elected president of the Republic. Although among scholars he is best known for his works on public finance, his long-lasting research into the foundations of a good government, broadly understood as good polity or good society, still remains today an unknown and unexplored field. This book, for the first time, provides the English-speaking world with a collection of essays aimed both at focusing on Luigi Einaudi’s good government and questioning its fecundity and relevance in contemporary human society. Accordingly, and in an attempt to give shape to a new research path prompted by the ‘‘Osservatorio sul buon governo’’[Observatory on …