Piero Sraffa: Critical Assessments, Volume 1

John Cunningham Wood

Psychology Press, 1995 - Biography & Autobiography - 1408 pages

Piero Sraffa was born in Turin in 1898. He was a professor at Perugia and Calgari from 1924-6 where he published his famous article attacking the Marshallian theory of the firm. However, his reputation is founded on his time at Cambridge from 1927 until his death in 1985. The main body of his work was his editing of The Works and Correspondence of David Ricardo, and eleven volume set, which was published between 1951 and 1973. In 1960 he produced his famous Production of Commodities by Means of Commodities which began a critique of economics that founded the Neo-Ricardian school.
Piero Sraffa: Critical Assessments brings together some 115 articles on this great economist. Sraffa's work is notoriously eliptical and elusive and has prompted a massive and often heated critical literature. The work presents a detailed overview of the analytical writings on Sraffa from contemporary sources through to the present day. The articles have been chosen to cover all aspects of Sraffa's work, from the theory to the practical application. These volumes will be an invaluable reference for anyone studying the development of modern economics.

Contents

• The Standard Commodity and Reviews: 15
• Seminal Economic Theorist J Eatwell: 74
• The Secret Life of a Great Intellectual G Napolitano: 84
• A New Level: 99
• Production of Commodities by Means: 104
• Introduction Piero Sraffa G C Harcourt: 106
• Sraffa on Money and Banking C Panico: 113
• The Collaboration of Maurice Dobb in Sraffas Edition of Ricardo B H Pollitt: 143
• Sraffas Ricardo K Bharadwaj: 158
• Sraffian Interdependence and Partial Equilibrium Analysis I Steedman: 182
• Sraffa on Income Distribution L L Pasinetti: 196
• Towards a PostSraffian Economics L Mainwaring: 201
• Sraffian Economic Analysis: 221
• The Sraffa Revolution I: 223
• The Sraffa Revolution II A Critique of the Marginal Method P R Brahmananda: 251
• Sraffa Labor Theories of Value and the Economics: 270
• The Sraffa Revolution III Switches Money Income and Trade P R Brahmananda: 291
• A Comment on Levine Sraffas Production: 326
• On a Contradiction in Sraffas Contribution R Bharadwaj: 330
• Some NonContradictions in Sraffas Contribution Comment L Sinha: 334
• Some NonContradictions in Sraffas Contribution B R Brahmananda: 336
• A Comment M Perelman: 339
• The Interpretation of Ricardos Essay on Profits J Eatwell: 341
• NonSubstitution and the Sraffa JointProduction System L Mainwaring: 348
• A Note on the RicardoMarxSraffa Discussion M Dobb: 356
• Marx after Steedman A Bródy: 359
• A Reply to Professor Bródy I Steedman: 363
• A Simple Criterion for Equal Value Composition of Capital W Parys: 365
• Menger and Jevons in the Setting of Postvon NeumannSraffa Economics H N Gram and V C Walsh: 367
• Interest Rate Equalization and Nonequalization by Trade in LeontiefSraffa Models P A Samuelson: 384
• Dynamics of WagePrice Spirals and Stagflation in the LeontiefSraffa System H Nikaido and S Kobayashi: 391

Bibliographic information

• Title: Piero Sraffa: Critical Assessments, Volume 1; Critical assessments; Piero Sraffa: Critical Assessments, John Cunningham Wood; Routledge critical assessments of leading economists
• Editor: John Cunningham Wood
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Psychology Press, 1995
• ISBN: 0415114438, 9780415114431
• Length: 1408 pages
• Subjects: Biography & Autobiography / Social Scientists & Psychologists; Business & Economics / Economics / General; Business & Economics / Economics / Theory; Reference / General