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 Soderstrom 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 Using hitherto unpublished material from Sraffa's literary heritage kept at Trinity College, Cambridge, the papers throw new light on the intellectual development of the young Sraffa and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 concern his: 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; and friendship with Wittgenstein and his impact on the latter's thinking.
1 The Sraffa-enigma: Introduction by Luigi L. Pasinetti 1
2 Piero Sraffa: emigration and scientific activity (1923-45) by Nerio Naldi 7
3 Sraffa and the Marshallian tradition by Annalisa Russelli 31
4 Piero Sraffa at the University of Cambridge by Maria Cristina Marcuzzo 51
5 On a turning point in Sraffa's theoretical and interpretative position in the late 1920s by Pierangelo Garegnani 79
6 Removing an 'insuperable obstacle' in the way of an objectivist analysis: Sraffa's attempts at fixed capital by Heinz D. Kurz and Neri Salvadori 119
7 Joint production: triumph of economic over mathematical logic? by Bertram Schefold 151
8 Introduction by Neri Salvadori 181
9 Sraffa's lectures on continental banking: a preliminary appraisal by Marcello de Cecco 185
10 Piero Sraffa's lectures on the advanced theory of value 1928-31 and the rediscovery of the classical approach by Rodolfo Signorino 195
11 Sraffa and Wittgenstein: physicalism and constructivism by Mathieu Marion 217
12 Sraffa and Gramsci: a recollection by Giorgio Napolitano 243
13 Representing the production and circulation of commodities in material terms: on Sraffa's objectivism by Heinz D. Kurz and Neri Salvadori 249
14 Bringing the edition of Ricardo's works to completion: the making of the general index, 1951-73 by Christian Gehrke 279
15 The comparative statics of industry-level produced-input-use in HOS trade theory by Ian Steedman 301
16 Reflections on Sraffa's legacy in economics: a review essay by Sergio Nistico and Giorgio Rodano 307
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