Towards a New Understanding of Sraffa
Insights from Archival Research
Published on 22. October 2014
Book
Hardback
XI, 257 pages
978-1-137-03431-1 (ISBN)
Description
This book provides fresh insights on Piero Sraffa's work, by examining previously unpublished papers from Sraffa archives. It offers new perspectives on the connection between Sraffa amd Marx, and examines Sraffa's approach to money, the role of equilibrium and of the surplus in economic theory.
Reviews / Votes
"The book contains seven papers . that span over different topics of classical political economy both 'old' and 'modern'. . Overall, all the essays presented in the book focus on relevant and stimulating issues for people interested in classical political economy . ." (Enrico Bellino, History of Economic Ideas, Vol. 23 (2), December, 2015)
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Edition
2014 edition
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
With dust jacket
Illustrations
XI, 257 p.
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 142 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
386 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-137-03431-1 (9781137034311)
DOI
10.1057/9781137034328
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Persons
Riccardo Bellofiore, University of Bergamo, Italy
Jean Cartelier, Paris-Ouest University, EconomiX, France
Scott Carter, University of Tulsa, USA
Guglielmo Chiodi, Ordinario di Economia Politica, Italy
Ghislain Deleplace, University Paris 8 LED, France
Stefano Perri, Università di Macerata, Italy
Dario Preti, Independent Researcher, Italy
Andrea Salanti, Dipartimento di Ingegneria gestionale, Italy
Ajit Sinha, Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, India
Jonathan Smith, Wren Library, UK
Pier Luigi Porta, University of Milano-Bicocca
Content
1. Introduction; Riccardo Bellofiore and Scott Carter 2. Surprise in the Archive: Reactions to Sraffa's Papers; Jonathan Smith PART I 3. On The Neoricardian Criticism of Irrelevance; Dario Preti 4. Sraffa and the Standard Commodity; Scott Carter Comment on Preti and Carter; Pier Luigi Porta Response to Porta; Scott Carter PART II 5. A New Perspective on Sraffa; Ajit Sinha 6. The Standard System and the Tendency of the (Maximum) Rate of Profit to Fall - Marx and Sraffa: There and Back; Stefano Perri Comment on Sinha and Perri: Hamlet without the Prince: Sraffa (and Marx) without Competition; Andrea Salanti A Response to the Comments by Professor Salanti; Ajit Sinha A Note on Professor Salanti's Comments; Stefano Perri PART III 7. The Essentiality of Money in the Sraffa Papers; Ghislain Deleplace 8. The positive surplus hypothesis: social versus physical objectivity; Jean Cartelier On Surplus and Money in Sraffa: A Comment on Cartelier and Deleplace; Gugliemlo Chiodi 9. The Loneliness ofthe Long Distance Thinker: Sraffa, Marx, and the Critique of Economic Theory; Riccardo Bellofiore