Piero Sraffa: The Man and the Scholar

Professor Kurz is Professor of Economics at the University of Graz, Austria.Luigi Pasinetti is Professor Emeritus at the Catholic University of Milan, Italy. Neri Salvadori is Professor of Economics at the University of Pisa, Italy.

• PrefacePART I1. The Sraffa-enigma: Introduction Luigi L. Pasinetti2. Piero Sraffa: emigration and scientific activity (1921–45) Nerio Naldi3. Sraffa and the Marshallian tradition Annalisa Rosselli4. Piero Sraffa at the University of Cambridge Maria Cristina Marcuzzo5. On a turning point in Sraffa’s theoretical and interpretative position in the late 1920s Pierangelo Garegnani6. Removing an ‘insuperable obstacle’ in the way of an objectivist analysis: Sraffa’s attempts at fixed capital Heinz D. Kurz and Neri Salvadori7. Joint production: triumph of economic over mathematical logic? Bertram SchefoldPART II8. Introduction Neri Salvadori9. Sraffa’s lectures on continental banking: a preliminary appraisal Marcello de Cecco10. Piero Sraffa’s lectures on the advanced theory of value 1928–31 and the rediscovery of the classical approach Rodolfo Signorino11. Sraffa and Wittgenstein: physicalism and constructivism Mathieu Marion12. Sraffa and Gramsci: a recollection Giorgio Napolitano13. Representing the production and circulation of commodities in material terms: on Sraffa’s objectivism Heinz D. Kurz and Neri Salvadori14. Bringing the edition of Ricardo’s works to completion: the making of the general index, 1951–73 Christian Gehrke15. The comparative statics of industry-level produced-input-use in HOS trade theory Ian Steedman16. Reflections on Sraffa’s legacy in economics: a review essay Sergio Nistico` and Giorgio Rodano

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