ABSTRACT
As the Fascist regime was steadily increasing the level of political repression, Sraffa decided not to pursue an academic career in Italy-although he had recently been awarded a professorship at Cagliari-and instead accepted Keynes’s offer to teach in Britain. When he arrived in Cambridge at the end of September 1927, Keynes personally helped him to settle in, finding him accommodation in the college building (17b St Edward’s Passage) in which he himself had a flat and where he stayed with his wife Lydia for weekends in Cambridge. Even though Sraffa was not (nor would he ever be made) a Fellow of King’s College, Keynes arranged high-table dining rights for him.
