Luigi L. Pasinetti: An Intellectual Biography

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Luigi L. Pasinetti (born 1930) is arguably the most influential of the second generation of the Cambridge Keynesian School of Economics, both because of his achievements and his early involvement with the direct pupils of John Maynard Keynes. This comprehensive intellectual biography traces his research from his early groundbreaking contribution in the field of structural economic dynamics to the ‘Pasinetti Theorem’. With scientific outputs spanning more than six decades (1955–2017), Baranzini and Mirante analyse the impact of his research work and roles at Cambridge, the Catholic University of Milan and at the new University of Lugano. Pasinetti’s whole scientific life has been driven by the desire to provide new frameworks to explain the mechanisms of modern economic systems, and this book assesses how far this has been achieved. Front Matter ....Pages i-xiii Introduction: Luigi L. Pasinetti—A Leading Scholar of the Second Generation of the Cambridge School of Keynesian Economics (Mauro L. Baranzini, Amalia Mirante)....Pages 1-30 Front Matter ....Pages 31-31 Youth at Zanica, Bergamo, and Academic Studies at the Catholic University of Milan, then Cambridge, Harvard and Cambridge Again (Mauro L. Baranzini, Amalia Mirante)....Pages 33-65 Nuffield College, Oxford (1959–61) and then King’s College, Cambridge (1961–76) (Mauro L. Baranzini, Amalia Mirante)....Pages 67-94 Back to the Catholic University of Milan (1976 Onwards) (Mauro L. Baranzini, Amalia Mirante)....Pages 95-111 Front Matter ....Pages 113-113 Pasinetti’s Main Research Lines. On Productivity Changes and on Ricardo (Mauro L. Baranzini, Amalia Mirante)....Pages 115-130 Pasinetti on Post-Keynesian Income Distribution and Growth Theory: The Basic Issues (Mauro L. Baranzini, Amalia Mirante)....Pages 131-176 Pasinetti on Post-Keynesian Income Distribution and Growth Theory: Further Developments (Mauro L. Baranzini, Amalia Mirante)....Pages 177-224 Pasinetti on Capital Theory (Mauro L. Baranzini, Amalia Mirante)....Pages 225-246 Pasinetti on Structural Economic Dynamics and on the Pure Labour Theory of Value (Mauro L. Baranzini, Amalia Mirante)....Pages 247-276 Pasinetti on ‘Natural’ Versus ‘Institutional’ Relations: Two Conferences in His Honour (Mauro L. Baranzini, Amalia Mirante)....Pages 277-296 Finale and Pasinetti’s Legacy (Mauro L. Baranzini, Amalia Mirante)....Pages 297-315 Back Matter ....Pages 317-390