Highlights on the Cambridge School: the Italian Connection

This paper is focussed on the Cambridge Keynesians and it provides an enquiry on the links between that side of the Cambridge School and the Italian tradition at large. The bulk of the contributions on the connection between Cambridge and Italy during the post-war period have generally been focussed on the factors of influence from Britain to Italy thus far. The present contribution aims at working on the same subject, with the only difference that it looks at the causation process taken the other way round. We shall deal with the influences of the Italian tradition on the drift and contents of the Cambridge School during the same period of time. More particularly, in this paper, special attention will be given to the works of Nicholas Kaldor, Luigi Pasinetti and Piero Sraffa.