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This book accounts for the work done around the two central aspects of Piero Sraffa's contribution to economic analysis, namely the criticism of the neoclassical theory of value and distribution and the construction of economic theory along the lines of the Classical approach.
List of contents
PART I: SRAFFA'S CONTRIBUTION AND CONTEMPORARY STREAMS IN ECONOMIC ANALYSIS 1. Sraffa's System in Relation to Some Main Currents in Unorthodox Economics; Tony Aspromourgos 2. Sraffians, Other Post-Keynesians, and the Controversy Over Centres of Gravitation; Marc Lavoie 3. Piero Sraffa and Shackle's Years of High Theory - Sraffa's Significance in the History of Economic Theories; Heinrich Bortis 4. Sraffa's and Wittgenstein's Reciprocal Influences: Forms of life' and Snapshots; Richard Arena 5. Sraffa, Sen and Non-causal Representations in Social Analysis; Andrea Ginzburg 6. Disequilibrium and Reproduction Prices: Some Extensions of Sraffa's Model; Carlo Benetti, Christian Bidard and Edith Klimovsky PART II: THE EVOLUTION OF SRAFFA'S IDEAS AND THE MANUSCRIPTS 7. Piero Sraffa and the Future of Economics - A Personal Evaluation; Luigi Pasinetti 8. Sraffa's Lectures on Continental Banking; Marcello de Cecco 9. The Construction of Long-Run Market Supply Curves: Some Notes on Sraffa's Critique of Partial Equilibrium; Giuseppe Freni and Neri Salvadori 10. A Pictorial Approach to the Standard Commodity with a Digression; Giorgio Gilibert 11. On Sraffa's Corrected Organic Composition of Capital; Scott Carter PART III: SRAFFA'S LEGACY AND THE INTERPRETATION OF RICARDO 12. Rent, as a Share of Produce, Not Governed by Proportions; Christian Gehrke 13. Ricardo's Writings in Russia: Influence and Interpretations; Gennady Borgomazov and Denis Melnik
About the author
Richard Arena, GREDEG, University of Nice Sophia Antipolis and CNRS
Tony Aspromourgos, University of Sydney, Australia
Carlo Benetti, EconomiX, University of Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense, France
Christian Bidard, EconomiX, University of Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense, France
Gennady Bogomazov, Saint Petersburg State University, Russia
Heinrich Bortis, Université de Fribourg, Switzerland
Scott Carter, The University of Tulsa, USA
Marcello de Cecco, Scuola normale superiore di Pisa and LUISS University of Rome, Italy
Giuseppe Freni, University of Naples, Italy
Christian Gehrke, University of Graz, Austria
Giorgio Gilibert, University of Trieste, Italy
Andrea Ginzburg, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy
Edith Klimovsky, Department of Economics, Metropolitan Autonomous University, Azcapotzalco Campus, Mexico City, Mexico
Marc Lavoie, Department of Economics, University of Ottawa, Canada
Denis Melnik, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia
Luigi L. Pasinetti, Università Cattolica, Milan, Italy
Neri Salvadori, University of Pisa, Italy
Antonella Stirati (Introduction), Roma Tre University, Italy
Summary
This book accounts for the work done around the two central aspects of Piero Sraffa's contribution to economic analysis, namely the criticism of the neoclassical theory of value and distribution and the construction of economic theory along the lines of the Classical approach.
