Capital, Distribution and Growth
Garegnani Archive inaugural conference
Roma Tre University, 19 and 20 November 2026
via Silvio D’Amico 77 (Rome) – Aula Tesi
Provisional Programme (Pdf download)
19 November
h 9:30 (Introduction)
• Welcome address
• Attilio Trezzini (Roma Tre University) Garegnani Archive: a preliminary description
• Manfredi Alberti (University of Palermo) Between Economics and Politics. A biographical
and intellectual profile of Pierangelo Garegnani
• Chiara Carosi (Istituto Gramsci Foundation) Sraffa’s Collection of Italian Socialist and
Communist Publications from the Garegnani Archive
h 11:50 (History of Economic Thought 1)
• Enrico Sergio Levrero (Roma Tre University) & Antonella Stirati (Roma Tre University)
On Garegnani’s Reconstruction of Malthus’s Positions on Value and His Debate with
Ricardo
• Stefano Di Bucchianico (University of Salerno) & Alessandro Le Donne (University of
Turin) ‘The more, the merrier’: John R. Mc Culloch and the ‘Corn Model’
h 14:30 (Surplus Approach)
• Sergio Cesaratto (University of Siena) Towards a theory of institutions based on the
classical notion of surplus
• Gary Mongiovi (St. John’s University) ‘There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious
fact’: Pierangelo Garegnani, Intellectual History and the Theory of Distribution
• Franklin Serrano (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro) Garegnani, the two approaches
and the two methods
h 16:50 (History of Economic Thought 2)
• Daria Pignalosa (University of Teramo) Before Cambridge: Pierangelo Garegnani’s
Undergraduate Thesis on Ricardo’s Theory of Value
• Roberto Ciccone (Roma Tre University) Notes on Garegnani’s book project of the 1970s
20 November
h 9:30 (Capital 1)
• Saverio Maria Fratini (Roma Tre University) The Making of Garegnani’s Critique of the
“Surrogate” Production Function
• Heinz D. Kurz (University of Graz) & Neri Salvadori (University of Pisa) The 1966 Special
Issue of the QJE on Capital Theory and Reswitching. A View from the Archives
• Enrico Bellino (Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Piacenza) Substitutability among
Production Factors and Complementarity among Inputs
h 11:50 (Capital 2)
• Paolo Trabucchi (Roma Tre University) Garegnani and the neo-Walrasians: attempts at
communication
• Fabio Petri (University of Siena) Where are we with the neo-Walrasian general
equilibrium microfoundations of macroeconomics
h 14:30 (Cambridge)
• Maria Cristina Marcuzzo (Sapienza University of Rome) Garegnani and Joan Robinson: an
enduring debate
• Paolo Paesani (University of Roma “Tor Vergata”) Kahn and Garegnani in post-war
Cambridge
• Enrico Sergio Levrero (Roma Tre University) & Antonella Stirati (Roma Tre University)
Garegnani’s First Readings of and Attempt to Review Sraffa (1960)
h 16:50 (Macroeconomics)
• Antonella Palumbo (Roma Tre University) Normal Positions, Equilibria, Paths of Growth:
A Reflection on the Method of Analysis in a Correspondence Between Garegnani and
Pasinetti
• Attilio Trezzini (Roma Tre University) A Less-Traveled Path in Demand-Led Growth
Theory: Method, Theoretical Positions and Capacity Utilization in Garegnani’s Manuscripts
• Ariel Dvoskin (University of Missouri-Kansas City) An Italian in the Tropics: Conventional
Models for Small Open Economy in the Light of Garegnani’s Contributions to Economic
Theory
Mario Cedrini