Cambridge economics can still be seen as a distinctive subdiscipline, involving a revival of classical and Keynesian economics and contributing to macroeconomics, to the theory of growth and distribution, to capital theory and to the history of economic thought. Pasinetti has been a major representative of this school for more than half a century. The present essay is the concluding chapter of a Festschrift for him. It provides a synthesis of the other chapters, which are dedicated to individual aspects of Pasinetti’s contributions to Cambridge economics. It leads from the methodological foundations and the theory of prices, based on production, to the theory of investment under uncertainty and to distribution, to capital theory and to growth with structural change. This is explained with Pasinetti’s normative turn. The formal conditions for the maintenance of full employment in an economy with differential rates of productivity growth in the different sectors have to be separated from the institutions, the legal and ethical rules and the historical conditions that may be required to realise full employment. The exposition is in part critical and concerns shortcomings of neoclassical approaches, and in part constructive.