In this comment I scrutinise critically some of the views put forward in this Special Issue on Sraffa's research programme, his accomplishments, and the relationship of his analysis to the analyses of Petty, the physiocrats, Adam Smith, Ricardo and Marx. A special concern is with the role of the...

This note answers Terry Peach's (1998) response to our criticisms of his interpretation of Ricardo. We show that the available evidence supports Sraffa's interpretation. The arguments put forward by Peach, far from undermining that interpretation or furthering an understanding of Ricardo's...