The Cambridge School of Economics

Even though references to the “Cambridge School” are frequent in history of economic thought literature, what this term designates is far from been univocal, being used sometimes in relation to Marshall and his disciples, sometimes to Keynes and his followers, sometimes to the approach to economics prevailing in Cambridge throughout the period spanning from the early days of the twentieth century to the 1970s, when Cambridge enjoyed international prestige as one of the leading centres of scientific investigation in economics