ABSTRACT
I arrived in Cambridge in 1972 armed with a degree from Bocconi, where for two years my economics had been Walras and Pareto in their reinterpretation by Professor De Maria, and an examination course in Keynesian economics during which Professor Lunghini conducted a seminar on the theory of capital. It was this seminar that prompted me to depart for Cambridge, where I had the good fortune to be taught by Geoff Harcourt who was in Cambridge on sabbatical. Thanks to him I gradually absorbed ‘Cambridge economies’. I also had the fortune to converse with Piero Sraffa and to attend the lectures of Joan Robinson, Maurice Dobb, Dick Goodwin, Luigi Pasinetti, Pierangelo Garegnani, Mario Nuti, Frank Hahn, Bob Rowthorn, John Eatwell, Ajit Singh and especially Nicholas Kaldor, whom I gradually realized had the most to teach me, with his incomparable ability to grasp the salient facts of economic and social reality and to use theory in their interpretation.
