"The idea of writing this book was dismissed as crazy by many of my friends. The book is here, now, but they may still be right, given the breadth and complexity of our field of enquiry: contemporary economic research, from the Second World War to the present. Consider the mass of economic...

The chapter explores similarities between Keynes and Sraffa, suggesting a fruitful symbiosis of the two approaches. Both challenged neoclassical price theories. Keynes formulated a "monetary theory of production" that led to a liquidity preference theory of financial asset prices; Sraffa a...

"A Brief History of Economic Thought The evolution of economic thought can be traced back from its beginnings in classical antiquity up to the present day. In this book, Professor Alessandro Roncaglia offers a clear, concise and updated version of his award- winning The Wealth of Ideas, studying...