Piero Sraffa: The Man and the Scholar: Exploring His Unpublished Papers

by Kurz; Heinz D.

• ISBN13: 9780415413992
• ISBN10: 0415413990
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-01-24
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Previously published as special issues of The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought and The Review of Political Economy , this volume contains the papers devoted to the life and work of Piero Sraffa. Sraffa was a leading intellectual of the twentieth century. He was brought to Cambridge by John Maynard Keynes and had an important impact on the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein. He received the golden medal S??derstr??m of the Swedish Academy of Sciences for his edition of David Ricardo's Works and Correspondence and he is the author of Production of Commodities by Means of Commodities , one of the most often cited book in economics. Using hitherto unpublished material from Sraffa's literary heritage kept at Trinity College, Cambridge, the papers throw new light on the intellectual development of the young Sraffa and correct several of the received views on him and his contribution. Themes covered concernhis: objectivism rediscovery and reformulation of the classical theory of value and distribution criticism of Alfred Marshall's analysis relationship with his Cambridge colleagues and friends biography around the time when he left Italy for the UK friendship with Wittgenstein and his impact on the latter's thinking.

Table of Contents

The Sraffa-enigma: Introduction	p. 1
Piero Sraffa: emigration and scientific activity (1923-45)	p. 7
Sraffa and the Marshallian tradition	p. 31
Piero Sraffa at the University of Cambridge	p. 51
On a turning point in Sraffa's theoretical and interpretative position in the late 1920s	p. 79
Removing an 'insuperable obstacle' in the way of an objectivist analysis: Sraffa's attempts at fixed capital	p. 119
Joint production: triumph of economic over mathematical logic?	p. 151
Introduction	p. 181
Sraffa's lectures on continental banking: a preliminary appraisal	p. 185
Piero Sraffa's lectures on the advanced theory of value 1928-31 and the rediscovery of the classical approach	p. 195
Sraffa and Wittgenstein: physicalism and constructivism	p. 217
Sraffa and Gramsci: a recollection	p. 243
Representing the production and circulation of commodities in material terms: on Sraffa's objectivism	p. 249
Bringing the edition of Ricardo's works to completion: the making of the general index, 1951-73	p. 279
The comparative statics of industry-level produced-input-use in HOS trade theory	p. 301
Reflections on Sraffa's legacy in economics: a review essay	p. 307
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