Piero Sraffa -His Life, Thought and Cultural Heritage

Author: Alessandro Roncaglia

Master eBook ISBN10 : 0-203-18432-7

Master eBook ISBN13 : 978-0-203-18432-5

No of pages : 144

eBook Price : £90
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Originally Published : 24 Aug 2000

Table of contents : Introduction
Chapter 1. Piero Sraffa
1. The early writings: money and banking
2. Friendship with Gramsci
3. Criticism of Marshallian theory
4. Imperfect competition
5. Criticism of the representative firm
6. Cambridge
7. Wittgenstein
8. Friendship with Keynes and the criticism of Hayek
9. The critical edition of Ricardo's writings
10. Production of Commodities by Means of Commdities
11. Critique of the marginalist approach
12. The Sraffian revolution
Chapter 2. 'Production of Commodities by Means of Commodities' between criticism of the marginalist approach and reconstruction of the classical approach
1. Introduction
2. The quantities produced assumption
3. The clash between the classical and marginalist approaches
4. Sraffa and Wittgenstein: the problem of method in economics
5. Sraffa and Keynes
6. Summing up
Chapter 3. The Sraffian Schools
1. Introduction
2. The critique of the marginalist theory
3. The rediscovery of the classical approach
4. The analytical contributions stemming from Sraffa
5. The 'Ricardian' reconstruction: Pasinetti
6. The 'Marxian' reconstruction: Garegnani
7. The 'Smithian' reconstruction: Sylos Labini
8. A preliminary evaluation of the three lines of enquiry
9. Conclusions