Violare gli equilibri.Gli economisti italiani di sinistra nella crisi degli anni Settanta del Novecento

Between 1969 and the early nineteen-eighties a unique parabola took place in Italy that was both historical and theoretical.We are referring here to the birth, development and decline of a research project that had assumed Sraffa’s book Production of Commodities by Means of Commodities as its basic reference. At the beginning of this debate, the characteristics of Sraffa’s theory as an “open” scheme enabled it to produce a theoretical core having multiple derivations (both Keynesian and Marxian). Successively the paper considers the reasons which, since the mid-seventies, started to corrode this compound doctrinaire alliance.