In the years 2003–04, Lottieri taught Philosophy of Social Sciences at
Ca' Foscari University of Venice, and in 2011 became visiting professor at
Aix-en-Provence. Fellow of many institutions,[4] he is the Director of Political Theory department of the
Istituto Bruno Leoni (IBL), based in Turin.[5] Lottieri's research develops a radical American-style libertarianism combining a strong emphasis on the inviolability of other people (marked by the influence of
Emmanuel Lévinas) and a realistic approach to the modern state, largely influenced by Italian
elitist school,
Carl Schmitt's scholarship, and
public choice and
Austrian School economists. Following Raimondo Cubeddu and Alberto Mingardi, in his work Lottieri "argues for the legitimacy of many so-called 'monopolistic practices' (cartels, monopolization, mergers, predatory pricing…), and for the legitimacy of conglomerates, and big business at large, vis-à-vis those governmental agencies built to thoroughly implement 'competition' from top to bottom."[6] His last book emphasizes the historic features of the modern state, suggesting to libertarian scholars to understand the cultural and even theological implications of the struggle between the rulers and the ruled.[7]
Publications
Single-authored books
Un'idea elvetica di libertà. Nella crisi della modernità europea. Brescia: La Scuola, 2017.
^Bruno Leoni, Law, Liberty and the Competitive Market, con una prefazione di Richard A. Epstein, New Brunswick NJ, Transaction, 2008; Bruno Leoni, La liberté et le droit, Paris, Les Belles Lettres, 2006; Bruno Leoni, Lezioni di Filosofia del diritto, Soveria Mannelli, Rubbettino, 2003; Bruno Leoni, Lecciones de Filosofía del Derecho, Madrid, Union Editorial, 2008; Bruno Leoni, Pravo a svoboda, Praha, Liberalni Institut, 2007.
^Raimondo Cubeddu - Alberto Mingardi, "Preface", Ethics & Politics, 2003, 2, p. 2.
^Partially, this topic had been examined in a previous paper written in cooperation with an Italian colleague: Luigi Marco Bassani - Carlo Lottieri, "The Problem of Security; Historicity of the State and "European Realism", in Hans-Hermann Hoppe, The Myth of National Defense, Auburn AL, The Ludwig von Mises Institute, 2003.
^Lottieri's Euroskepticism is evident also here: Carlo Lottieri,
"It’s Tony’s Turn"Archived April 3, 2009, at the
Wayback Machine, Tech Central Station, July 1st, 2005.