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Fondazione Centro Studi e Documentazione Piero Sraffa 
 
Dipartimento di Economia Politica, Università Romare   
 
 
Announcement:  
 
 
The Fondazione Centro Ricerche Studi e Documentazione Piero Sraffa offers a 
fellowship of 25 million lire to foreign scholars interested in classical 
political economy and in Piero Sraffa's scientific contribution. The 
fellowship entails residence in Rome for a period of 9 months beginning 15 
October 2002.   
 
 
The fellowship is intended for scholars who are enrolled or about to enrol 
in a Ph.D. program. Applications are however welcome also from more 
experienced scholars who already hold a Ph.D. or have equivalent research 
experience. In addition to the winner of the fellowship the Centro will 
admit other qualified students who can fund their stay from a different 
source.  
 
During a first part of their period of residence participants in the 
program will be expected to conduct readings concerning the classical 
economists, their interpretation, Sraffa's contribution and later 
developments with respect both to the critique of marginal theories and the 
revival of the classical approach. Short essays will be written on assigned 
themes and discussed with supervisors. It will also be possible to attend 
lectures on these subjects given at this University. In a second period of 
their stay participants will work at a longer essay on a subject of their 
choice, to be considered in the light of the Classical approach and its 
modern developments. They will be helped through this work by supervisions 
and informal discussion with members of the Centro Sraffa. All work can be 
conducted in either Italian or English. 
 
The scholarship will be paid in three instalments at the beginning of each 
term in October, January and April. The sum can be adjustable if the holder 
comes with dependents. Travel expenses will be refunded upn arrival. It 
will be exceptionally possible to spend one of the three terms of residence 
in a following academic year - the need for such arrangement should however 
be specified in the application. Participants in the program will be 
assigned a tutor to help them organize their stay in Rome. 
 
Candidates are asked to include with their applications, besides their 
mailing and e-mail addresses and telephone number: i) a curriculum; ii) a 
testimonial by a scholar well acquainted with their work; iii) a short 
description of their research interests and published or unpublished 
writings. 
 
Applications must be sent to the FONDAZIONE CENTRO RICERCHE STUDI E 
DOCUMENTAZIONE PIERO SRAFFA, VIA OSTIENSE 139 - 00154 ROMA - ITALIA 
(tel.++39.+6-57374.037/035/003; fax. (++39)(+6)57374-254) and arrive by 
15th of March 2002. The Centro Sraffa will take its decisions concerning 
the applications by the first week of April and information will be sent 
accordingly.  
 
Further enquiries will be welcome at <[log in to unmask]>  
 
 
The Administrative Board: R. Ciccone, P. Garegnani, P. Leon 
 
The Centro Sraffa collects materials and supports research for the revival 
of the Classical approach to economic theory 
 
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