Reading lists and teaching materials

Sergio Cesaratto
[mini-course B, lecture 5]

Open link   Sergio Cesaratto, Neo-Kaleckian and Sraffian controversies on accumulation theory, WP 650 Department of Economics and Statistics, University of Siena


Giancarlo de Vivo
[mini-course A, lecture 6]



Saverio M. Fratini
[mini-course A, lecture 2] Wicksell effects, demand for capital and stability

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Open link Fratini, S.M. (2012) 'Real Wicksell effect, demand for capital and stability', mimeo.

Open link   Fratini, S.M. (2009) 'Reswitching and Decreasing Demand for Capital in a Model with a Continuum of Linear Techniques', EERI Research Paper Series n.26.

Open link   Fratini, S.M. (2010) 'Reswitching and decreasing demand for capital', Metroeconomica, 61(4), 676-82.


Heinz D. Kurz
[mini-course A, lecture 4] Classical Economics - past, present and future

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E. Sergio Levrero
[mini-course C, lecture 2] Marx's theory of wages and the revival of the surplus approach

Open link Levrero, E.S. (2012), Marx on Absolute and Relative Wages and the Modern Theory of Distribution

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M. Cristina Marcuzzo
[mini-course B, lecture 4] Re-embracing Keynes. Admirers, scholars and sceptics in the aftermath of the crisis

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Murray Milgate
[mini-course B, lecture 1] Keynes re-remixed



Gary Mongiovi
[mini-course A, lecture 7] On the Concept of Exploitation in Marxian Economics

Open link Notes on Exploitation and the Theory of Value in Marxian Economics


Man-Seop Park
[mini-course B, lecture 2] A 'Sraffian-Keynesian' approach to effective demand in the long period

Open link Man-Seop Park, Towards a 'Classical-Keynesian' analysis of effective demand in the long period, mimeo

Open link Man-Seop Park, Sraffa's 'given' quantities of output and Keynes's principle of effective demand, mimeo


Sergio Parrinello
Round Table on Gravitation

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Fabio Petri
[mini-course A, lecture 1] Aspects of the present debates on capital and neoclassical theory

Open link Fabio Petri (2009), On the Recent Debate on Capital Theory and General Equilibrium, Contribution to the Festschrift in honour of Prof. Bertram Schefold

Open link Fabio Petri (2010), Neoclassical Investment Depends on Demand, mimeo

Open link Fabio Petri (2012), On the Relevance of Reswitching,in Classical political economy and modern theory. Essays in honour of Heinz Kurz, ed. by C. Gehrke, N. Salvadori, I. Steedman and R. Sturn, Routledge

Open link Garegnani on capital in neoclassical theory (2008)


Massimo Pivetti
[mini-course C, lecture 4] Relative strength of the parties and income distribution in the classical-Marxian approach

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Fabio Ravagnani
[mini-course A, lecture 3] A critical introduction to temporary general equilibrium theory

Open link Fabio Ravagnani (2010), A Simple Critical Introduction to Temporary General Equilibrium Theory, WP 136, Dipartimento di Economia Pubblica, Università di Roma "La Sapienza"


Alessandro Roncaglia
[mini-course A, lecture 8] Towards a postkeynesian postsraffian theory of income distribution

Open link Alessandro Roncaglia (2012), A patchwork post-Keynesian/evolutionary approach to income distribution, in Classical political economy and modern theory. Essays in honour of Heinz Kurz, ed. by C. Gehrke, N. Salvadori, I. Steedman and R. Sturn, Routledge


Neri Salvadori
[mini-course A, lecture 5] The classical notion of competition revisited

Open link   Salvadori, N. and Signorino, R. (2010): The classical notion of competition revisited. MPRA paper 24572.

Open link   Salvadori, Neri and Signorino, Rodolfo (2011): Competition, MPRA Paper 38387

Open link   Salvadori, Neri and Signorino, Rodolfo (2012): Adam Smith on Monopoly Theory. Making good a lacuna, MPRA Paper 38411


Franklin Serrano
[mini-course B, lecture 3] Effective demand in the long period and beyond



Antonella Stirati
[mini-course C, lecture 1] The theory of wages in the classical economists and its interpretations

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Open link Antonella Stirati, Unemployment, Institutions and the Living Standard in the Classical Theory of Wages, Contributions to Political Economy, 11, 1992

Open link Levrero S., Some notes on wages and competition in the labour market in R. Ciccone, C. Gerke, G. Mongiovi (eds) Sraffa and Modern Economics, Rouletdge, 2011, vol II.

Open link   Garegnani P., Professor Samuelson on Sraffa and the Classical Economists, European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, June 2007, pp 181-195 and 212-226

[mini-course C, lecture 3] The modern revival of the classical theory of distribution

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Open link Stirati A., Inflation, Unemployment and Hysteresis: an Alternative View, Review of Political Economy, October 2001

Open link Levrero S. and Stirati A., The influence of unemployment, productivity and institutions on real wage trends: the case of Italy 1970-2000”, in E. Hein, A. Heise, A. Truger (eds) Wages, Employment, Distribution and Growth – International Perspectives, Palgrave, Macmillan, 2006

Open link Stirati A. Alternative ‘closures’ to Sraffa’s system - some reflections in the light of the changes in income distribution in the last decades, forthcoming


Attilio Trezzini
[mini-course B, lecture 6] Consumption and growth

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