Pierangelo Garegnani, Italian economist and professor, died he was 81.

Pierangelo Garegnani was an Italian economist and professor of the University of Rome III.^[1]

(Milan, 1930 – Lavagna, 14th October 2011) 

He was the Director of the Fondazione Centro Piero Sraffa di Studi e Documenti at the Facoltá di Economia "Federico Caffè", and also the literary executor of the works, documents and papers left by the eminent Italian economist Piero Sraffa to the University of Cambridge's Wren Library. Professor Garegnani has been one of the leading theoretical critics of neoclassical economics. He has published several books and articles concerning the classical economic theory, from Ricardo to Sraffa, as an alternative theoretical foundation to analyse the capitalist economy. An account of his contributions was published by the Royal Economic Society.^[2]


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