Fighting Market Failure: Collected Essays in the Cambridge Tradition of Economics
About this ebook
The first section opens with a chapter presenting the group within the physical and metaphorical place which was Cambridge, and the remaining five chapters centre on the life and work of each economist. The second section has papers looking at them in pairs, as it were, and revolves around the theme of their collaboration in various intellectual achievements. In particular, the opening piece makes the rather bold point that the road to the General Theory was not a solitary path. In other two papers much is said of Sraffa’s intellectual isolation in Cambridge and the difficulty of communication with Joan Robinson. The chapters in the third section take up aspects of their theories and approaches which justify the importance and relevance of the Cambridge tradition in economics.
This book should be of interest to students and researchers within the history of economics and economic thought, particularly those focussing on the Cambridge or Keynesian traditions.
About the author
Maria Cristina Marcuzzo is Professor in Economics at the University of Rome, "La Sapienza", Italy. She is Past President of the European Society for the History of Economic Thought, member of the Executive Committee of the Italian Society of Economists, and of the History of Political Economy Society.
