This study examines five decades of Italian economists who studied or
researched at the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge between the years
1950 and 2000. Providing a detailed list of Italian economists
associated with Hicks, Harrod, Bacharach, Flemming, Mirrlees, Sen and
other distinguished dons, the authors examine eleven research lines,
including the Sraffa and the neo-Ricardian school, the post-Keynesian
school and the Stone's and Goodwin's schools. Baranzini and Mirante
trace the influence of the schools in terms of 1) their fundamental role
in the evolution of economic thought; 2) their promotion of four key
controversies (on the measurement of technical progress, on capital
theory, on income distribution and on the inter-generational
transmission of wealth); 3) the counter-flow of Oxbridge scholars to
academia in Italy, and 4) the invigoration of a third generation of
Italian economists researching or teaching at Oxbridge today.
A must-read for all those interested in the way Italian and British
research has shaped the study and teaching of economics.