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Fighting Market Failure: Collected Essays in the Cambridge Tradition of Economics / Edition 1
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Fighting Market Failure: Collected Essays in the Cambridge Tradition of Economics / Edition 1
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The first section opens with a chapter presenting the group within the physical and metaphorical
which was Cambridge, and the remaining five chapters centre on the life and work of each economist. The second section has papers looking at them in pairs, as it were, and revolves around the theme of their collaboration in various intellectual achievements. In particular, the opening piece makes the rather bold point that the road to the
was not a solitary path. In other two papers much is said of Sraffa’s intellectual isolation in Cambridge and the difficulty of communication with Joan Robinson. The chapters in the third section take up aspects of their theories and approaches which justify the importance and relevance of the Cambridge tradition in economics.
This book should be of interest to students and researchers within the history of economics and economic thought, particularly those focussing on the Cambridge or Keynesian traditions.