Overview

This book provides fresh insights on Piero Sraffa's work, by examining previously unpublished papers from Sraffa archives. It offers new perspectives on the connection between Sraffa amd Marx, and examines Sraffa's approach to money, the role of equilibrium and of the surplus in economic theory.

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Author:   R. Bellofiore ,  Scott Carter
Publisher:   Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Edition:   1st ed. 2014
Weight:   0.454kg
ISBN:  

9781349441761

ISBN 10:   1349441767
Pages:   257
Publication Date:   01 January 2014
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1. Introduction; Riccardo Bellofiore and Scott Carter 2. Surprise in the Archive: Reactions to Sraffa's Papers; Jonathan Smith PART I 3. On The Neoricardian Criticism of Irrelevance; Dario Preti 4. Sraffa and the Standard Commodity; Scott Carter Comment on Preti and Carter; Pier Luigi Porta Response to Porta; Scott Carter PART II 5. A New Perspective on Sraffa; Ajit Sinha 6. The Standard System and the Tendency of the (Maximum) Rate of Profit to Fall – Marx and Sraffa: There and Back; Stefano Perri Comment on Sinha and Perri: Hamlet without the Prince: Sraffa (and Marx) without Competition; Andrea Salanti A Response to the Comments by Professor Salanti; Ajit Sinha A Note on Professor Salanti's Comments; Stefano Perri PART III 7. The Essentiality of Money in the Sraffa Papers; Ghislain Deleplace 8. The positive surplus hypothesis: social versus physical objectivity; Jean Cartelier On Surplus and Money in Sraffa: A Comment on Cartelier and Deleplace; Gugliemlo Chiodi 9. The Loneliness of the Long Distance Thinker: Sraffa, Marx, and the Critique of Economic Theory; Riccardo Bellofiore

Reviews

The book contains seven papers ... that span over different topics of classical political economy both 'old' and 'modern'. ... Overall, all the essays presented in the book focus on relevant and stimulating issues for people interested in classical political economy ... . (Enrico Bellino, History of Economic Ideas, Vol. 23 (2), December, 2015)

Author Information

Riccardo Bellofiore, University of Bergamo, Italy Jean Cartelier, Paris-Ouest University, EconomiX, France Scott Carter, University of Tulsa, USA Guglielmo Chiodi, Ordinario di Economia Politica, Italy Ghislain Deleplace, University Paris 8 LED, France Stefano Perri, Università di Macerata, Italy Dario Preti, Independent Researcher, Italy Andrea Salanti, Dipartimento di Ingegneria gestionale, Italy Ajit Sinha, Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, India Jonathan Smith, Wren Library, UK Pier Luigi Porta, University of Milano-Bicocca

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