ABSTRACT
A century after his birth, this volume presents a re-assessment of the life and work of Piero Sraffa, one of the great economists of the twentieth century. From his anti-Marshallian articles of 1925 and 1926 to his classic work on the theory of capital, Production of Commodities by Means of Commodities, Sraffa's contribution to the study of economi
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |2 pages
Part I On Sraffa’s biography
chapter 2|18 pages
Piero Sraffa’s early approach to political economy
From the gymnasium to the beginning of his academic career
part |2 pages
Part II Sraffa’s contribution to the Cambridge debates in the 1920s and 1930s
part |2 pages
Part III
chapter 10|22 pages
From the 1925–6 articles to the 1960 book
Some notes on Sraffa’s not so implicit methodology
chapter 12|18 pages
Production of Commodities by Means of Commodities between criticism and reconstruction
The given quantities assumption
part |2 pages
Part IV Specific topics
chapter 23|10 pages
Whatever happened to Dr Hayek after the debate with Mr Sraffa?
A comment on Zappia