Piero Sraffa's Political Economy: A Centenary Estimate (Routledge Studies in the History of Economics)

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 economics is closely examined. Book Cover......Page 1 Title......Page 4 Contents......Page 5 Acknowledgements......Page 14 List of contributors......Page 15 Preface by......Page 16 Introduction by......Page 18 A memoir by......Page 36 On Sraffa's biography......Page 40 A child of Cultura Positiva: Turin and the education of Piero Sraffa......Page 42 Piero Sraffa's early approach to political economy: from the gymnasium to the beginning of his academic career......Page 62 Sraffa's contribution to the Cambridge debates in the 1920s and 1930s......Page 80 Sraffa and the criticism of Marshall in the 1920s......Page 82 Sraffa and Cambridge economics, 1928 1931......Page 120 On some controversial aspects of Sraffa's theoretical system in the second half of the 1920s......Page 139 Comments......Page 160 On Marshall's representative firm: a comment on Marchionatti......Page 162 Why did Sraffa lose interest in imperfect competition? A comment on Marcuzzo......Page 167 Continuity and change in Sraffa's thought: from the 1920s to Production of Commodities by Means of Commodities......Page 176 Continuity and change in Sraffa's thought: an archival excursus......Page 178 Some notes on the Sraffa Papers......Page 196 From the 1925 6 articles to the 1960 book: some notes on Sraffa's not so implicit methodology......Page 204 Sraffa's edition of Ricardo's Works: reconstruction of a reconstruction......Page 226 Production of Commodities by Means of Commodities between criticism and reconstruction: the given quantities assumption......Page 246 Comments......Page 262 A comment on Salanti and Signorino......Page 264 A comment on Rosselli......Page 267 A comment on Roncaglia......Page 270 Specific topics......Page 276 Production of Commodities by Means of Commodities and the open economy......Page 278 Sraffa and the mathematicians: Frank Ramsey and Alister Watson......Page 293 Monetary analysis in Sraffa's writings......Page 324 On the relationship between Sraffa and Keynes......Page 350 Sraffa on Hayek: unexpected influences......Page 372 Comments......Page 396 A comment on Steedman......Page 398 Monetary analyses in Sraffa's writings: a comment on Panico......Page 401 Whatever happened to Dr Hayek after the debate with Mr Sraffa? A comment on Zappia......Page 416 Bibliography......Page 426 Index......Page 450

this Book Covers Sraffa Biography During The First Two Decades Of The Century, His 1925 And 1926 Articles Of The Criticism Of Marshallian Orthodoxy And His Contribution To The Cambridge Debate On Kahn's And Robinson' Imperfect Competition And The Coming Of Keyne's General Theory. The Book Also Examines The Only Book Sraffa Wrote production Of Commodities By Means Of Commodities.

On 29 November 1920 in the faculty of law at the University of Turin, student number 7150 Piero Sraffa presented his degree dissertation: the title was L'inflazione monetaria in Italia durante e dopo la guerra and the supervisor was the professor of public finance, Luigi Einaudi.