Capital, Distribution and Growth. Garegnani Archive Inaugural Conference

19-20 November 2026 Roma Tre University, via Silvio D’Amico 77 - Rome (Italy)


The inventory of the material in the archive is already available at www.garegnaniarchive.it


Provisional Programme of the Conference
 
 
19 November
 
h 9:30 (Introduction)
Chair: Saverio Maria Fratini (Roma Tre University)

• Welcome address
• Attilio Trezzini (Roma Tre University) Garegnani Archive: A Preliminary Description
• Manfredi Alberti (University of Palermo) Between Economics and Politics. A Biographical and Intellectual Profile of Pierangelo Garegnani
• Chiara Carosi (Istituto Gramsci Foundation) Sraffa’s Collection of Italian Socialist and Communist Publications from the Garegnani Archive

 
Coffee break (11:20-11:50)
 
h 11:50 (History of Economic Thought 1)
Chair: Roberto Ciccone (Roma Tre University)

• Enrico Sergio Levrero (Roma Tre University) & Antonella Stirati (Roma Tre University) On Garegnani’s Reconstruction of Malthus’s Positions on Value and His Debate with Ricardo
• Stefano Di Bucchianico (University of Salerno) & Alessandro Le Donne (University of Turin) ‘The more, the merrier’: John R. McCulloch and the ‘Corn Model’

 
Light lunch (13:10-14:30)
 
h 14:30 (Surplus Approach)
Chair: Antonella Stirati (Roma Tre University)

• Sergio Cesaratto (University of Siena) Towards a Theory of Institutions Based on the Classical Notion of Surplus
• Gary Mongiovi (St. John’s University) ‘There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact’: Pierangelo Garegnani, Intellectual History and the Theory of Distribution
• Franklin Serrano (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro) Garegnani, the Two Approaches and the Two Methods

 
Coffee break (16:20-16:50)
 
h 16:50 (History of Economic Thought 2)
Chair: Enrico Sergio Levrero (Roma Tre University)

• Daria Pignalosa (University of Teramo) Before Cambridge: Pierangelo Garegnani’s Undergraduate Thesis on Ricardo’s Theory of Value
• Roberto Ciccone (Roma Tre University) Notes on Garegnani’s Book Project of the 1970s

 
 
20 November
 
h 9:30 (Capital 1)
Chair: Andres Lazzarini (Goldsmiths, University of London)

• Saverio Maria Fratini (Roma Tre University) The Making of Garegnani’s Critique of the “Surrogate” Production Function
• Heinz D. Kurz (University of Graz) & Neri Salvadori (University of Pisa) The 1966 Special Issue of the QJE on Capital Theory and Reswitching. A View from the Archives
• Enrico Bellino (Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Piacenza) Substitutability among Production Factors and Complementarity among Inputs

 
Coffee break (11:20-11:50)
 
h 11:50 (Capital 2)
Chair: Antonella Palumbo (Roma Tre University)

• Paolo Trabucchi (Roma Tre University) Garegnani and the Neo-Walrasians: Attempts at Communication
• Fabio Petri (University of Siena) A 1996 Unpublished 113-Page Typescript by Garegnani on Hahn 1982

 
Light lunch (13:10-14:30)
 
h 14:30 (Cambridge)
Chair: Paolo Trabucchi (Roma Tre University)

• Maria Cristina Marcuzzo (Sapienza University of Rome) Garegnani and Joan Robinson: An Enduring Debate
• Paolo Paesani (University of Roma “Tor Vergata”) Kahn and Garegnani in Post-War Cambridge
• Enrico Sergio Levrero (Roma Tre University) & Antonella Stirati (Roma Tre University) Garegnani’s First Readings of and Attempt to Review Sraffa (1960)

 
Coffee break (16:20-16:50)
 
h 16:50 (Macroeconomics)
Chair: Daria Pignalosa (University of Teramo)

• Antonella Palumbo (Roma Tre University) Normal Positions, Equilibria, Paths of Growth: A Reflection on the Method of Analysis in a Correspondence Between Garegnani and Pasinetti
• Attilio Trezzini (Roma Tre University) A Less-Traveled Path in Demand-Led Growth Theory: Method, Theoretical Positions and Capacity Utilization in Garegnani’s Manuscripts
• Ariel Dvoskin (University of Missouri-Kansas City) An Italian in the Tropics: Conventional Models for a Small Open Economy in the Light of Garegnani’s Contributions to Economic Theory

Provisional programme