The aim of this paper is to assess to what extent Keynes, or any other speculator, could ever have used the theory of futures contracts he formulated in the 1920s as the guiding principle for their investment strategy and what light the theory can shed on speculative behaviour. To this end, we...

Pierangelo Garegnani, in a paper read at the conference on Piero Sraffa held at the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei in February 2003, put forward an interpretation of the origin of the research project which led Sraffa to publish his book Production of Commodities by Means of Commodities...