Many years after the publication of Sraffa's "Production of Commodities by Means of Commodities", works on capital theory from perspectives accommodating Sraffa's critical premises seem to have lost much of their initial strength and persuasion. This book, by contrast, aims at showing how Sraffa's theoretical contributions could be pursued in new directions, in effect providing an alternative paradigm to the postclassical economic theory and challenging the persistent dominance of a widespread economic culture based on that theory.
List of Tables, Figures and Diagrams
Acknowledgements
List of Contributors
Introduction by Guglielmo Chiodi and Leonardo Ditto 1
Pt. I Reactions
1 Book Reviews on Production of Commodities by Means of Commodities by Enrico Bellino 23
Pt. II Economics
2 Sraffa's Prices by S. N. Afriat 45
3 Sraffa after Marx: An Open Issue by Riccardo Bellofiore 68
4 The Classical 'Surplus' Approach and the Theory of the Welfare State and Public Pensions by Sergio Cesaratto 93
5 Sraffa 1926 and Sraffa 1960: An Attempt to Bridge the Gap by Sergio Nistico 114
6 Savings, Investment and Capital in a System of General Intertemporal Equilibrium - an Extended Comment on Garegnani with a Note on Parrinello by Bertram Schefold 127
Commentary by Sergio Parrinello
7 Beyond Capitalism: Sraffa's Economic Theory by Guglielmo Chiodi 187
8 Notes on Early Development Economics' Story and Its Relation to Sraffa's Contribution by Leonardo Ditta 199
Pt. III Philosophy
9 Sraffa: Notes on Moralizing, Money, and Economic Prudence by Peter Edwards 211
10 What Wittgenstein Owed to Sraffa by Brian McGuinness 227
Pt. IV Mathematics
11 Some Mathematical Remarks on Sraffa's Chapter 1 by Paolo Maroscia 239
12 Some Observations on Sraffa and Mathematical Proofs With an Appendix on Sraffa's Convergence Algorithm by Marco Lippi 243
Commentary by Neri Salvadori
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