This seminar will be of interest to list-members who are in the London ar= 
ea next week. 
 
In the run up to the Association for Heterodox Economics (AHE) conference= 
 on 
'pluralism in economics', at City University, London, in July 2005, the A= 
HE 
is holding a series of seminars on the same overall topic.  We have Marxi= 
st, 
institutionalist, Austrian and feminist economics speakers lined up for t= 
he 
Lent and Summer terms.  The first seminar, at very short notice, is a 
contribution from the History of Economic Thought.  Maria Cristina Marcuz= 
zo 
of the Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche, Universit=E0 di Roma "La Sapie= 
nza", 
will be speaking on "Piero Sraffa at the University of Cambridge". 
 
Date: Friday, 7 January 
Time: 5.00 pm 
Place: CPNSS Seminar Room, T206, Second Floor, Lakatos Building, London 
School of Economics, Portugal Street, off Kingsway, London WC2. 
 
An abstract (or, to be precise, the introduction) of the paper may be see= 
n 
below.  The full text of a recent version may be seen at 
http://www.wiwi.uni-frankfurt.de/profs/klump/D/koll/marcuzzopaper.pdf . 
Details of the conference, and the call for papers, may be seen at 
http://hetecon.com/ . 
 
I look forward to seeing you. 
 
Happy New Year! 
 
Andy Denis 
 
 
"Piero Sraffa at the University of Cambridge". 
Maria Cristina Marcuzzo 
 
My aim in this paper is to reconstruct the academic figure of Sraffa at 
Cambridge as it emerges from his papers, his correspondence with the 
economists with whom he had special relations, and the official documents= 
 of 
the University, in particular in connection with his role in the Faculty = 
of 
Economics and Politics, to which he belonged from 1927 to 1965. 
 
At Cambridge academic life is indissolubly bound up with the college that 
one belongs to. In Sraffa's case this was King's, where he began as a Mem= 
ber 
of High Table to become later a College Member, and Trinity, where was 
appointed fellow in 1939; again, for this aspect of Sraffa's life and 
academic experience I shall endeavour to give an account as far as possib= 
le 
based on the existing documentation. 
 
A word of warning is necessary here: the figure of Sraffa cannot be fully 
understood and interpreted without reconstructing the interconnections wi= 
th 
the scientific, cultural and political events in his life. Here, therefor= 
e, 
I cannot pretend to offer anything more than a few pieces to fit together 
with others to fill out the broad picture. 
 
In the following sections I present a detailed examination of the various 
posts held by Sraffa at the University of Cambridge.