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Pierangelo Garegnani: Policy Implications of the Critique of Political Economy

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  • Antonella Palumbo
  • Attilio Trezzini

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Notwithstanding his fundamental contribution to the critique of the neoclassical notion of capital, we maintain that Pierangelo Garegnani’s research has been especially characterized by the reconstruction of an alternative approach to economics. Following Sraffa’s lead, Garegnani found such an alternative approach in the Classical theory of value and distribution, and put forward a Classical-Keynesian theory for output determination. In this approach, prices are not scarcity indexes, the absence of any spontaneous tendency to full employment abolishes optimality of market economies, income distribution results from social − not natural − forces. The policy implications of this approach are considered.

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  • Antonella Palumbo & Attilio Trezzini, 2011. "Pierangelo Garegnani: Policy Implications of the Critique of Political Economy," QA - Rivista dell'Associazione Rossi-Doria, Associazione Rossi Doria, issue 4, December.
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    1. Enrico Sergio Levrero, 2021. "Garegnani’s work and the prospects of the surplus approach: an introduction," Bulletin of Political Economy, Bulletin of Political Economy, vol. 15(2), pages 115-121, December.

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    Keywords

    Pierangelo Garegnani; Piero Sraffa; Capital theory; Classical surplus approach; Effective demand;
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    JEL classification:

    • B32 - Schools of Economic Thought and Methodology - - History of Economic Thought: Individuals - - - Obituaries
    • D30 - Microeconomics - - Distribution - - - General
    • D46 - Microeconomics - - Market Structure, Pricing, and Design - - - Value Theory
    • E11 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - General Aggregative Models - - - Marxian; Sraffian; Kaleckian

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