Pierangelo Garegnani (9 August 1930–14 October 2011) was an Italian

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and

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of the University of Rome III. He was the Director of the Fondazione Centro Piero Sraffa di Studi e Documenti at the Federico Caffè School of Economics, and also the

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of the works, documents and papers left by the Italian economist Piero Sraffa to the University of Cambridge's Wren Library. Professor Garegnani was one of the leading theoretical critics of

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. He published several books and articles concerning the classical economic theory, from

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to Sraffa, as an alternative theoretical foundation to analyse the

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. An account of his contributions was published by the

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. During the 1980s, Garegnani worked as a visiting professor at

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Works

See list of last works at the IDEAS site
Information about Pierangelo Garegnani at IDEAS

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1930 births 2011 deaths Italian economists Academic staff of Roma Tre University {{Italy-economist-stub

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