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This paper reconstructs the academic figure of Sraffa at the University of Cambridge as it emerges from his papers, his … examination of the various posts held by Sraffa at the University as Lecturer, Assistant Director of Research, Member of the … College. Moreover, the relationship with his fellow economists in Cambridge, in particular Keynes, Kahn, Kaldor and Joan …
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The paper throws some new light on Sraffa's contribution, using material from his yet unpublished papers. Attention … focuses on Sraffa's rediscovery of the distinct character of the classical theory of value and distribution and his refutation …
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Several features of Piero Sraffa' Production of Commodities are attributed to David Ricardo by Sraffa himself and by … be justified, the question arises how Sraffa may have erred. I approach the problem by asking: (i) whether his reading … can only be rationalized in post-Marxian terms; and (ii) how he arrived at his reading. I conclude that Sraffa did read …
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Piero Sraffa took thirteen years to publish the General Indexto The Works and Correspondence of David Ricardo.The Index … to Ricardo's life are proof of Sraffa's broad historical interests and focus on certain characteristics of Ricardo. …
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Sraffa's mature work is seen here as a re-discovery and resumption of the 'submerged and forgotten' approach of the … background that Sraffa's mature work should be set with its three main contributions, of a rediscovery of the approach, of a … neoclassical theory. Among several developments originating from Sraffa's seminal work, two are singled out for mention: (i) the …
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Samuelson's work on the classical economists and Sraffa, a subject of continuing interest for that author, especially after … Sraffa (1960). The article argues for the existence in Smith and Ricardo of an alternative approach to distribution and … two basic criticism, that Samuelson has advanced against Sraffa (1960). While the claimed dependence of the (1960) prices …
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The paper retraces some of the stages in Sraffa's thinking about the work of Marshall, by drawing on unpublished … material in the Sraffa archive from 1923 to 1930. It argues that Sraffa transformed his dissent  -  which was based on … critique of the 'normal rate of profit' and the critique of the concept of marginal productivity) since Sraffa could not find …
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The paper assumes that since Gramsci influenced Sraffa and SraffA influenced Wittgenstein it may be possible to … Sraffa (both earlier and later) and the thinking of Wittgenstein (later) are then interpreted in terms of these same three … thinking running through Gramsci, Sraffa and Wittgenstein. …
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Sraffa's notes titled 'Summer 1927' (D3/12/3, Trinity Catalogue) presumably written while preparing for the lectures on … sacrifices', Sraffa moved on to a theory of relative prices and distribution based on what he then called 'physical real costs … for profits and rent. It is the theory which Sraffa recognized then to be that of Smith and Ricardo and the 'old classical …
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Sraffa's book artfully combines an exposition of key problems of capital theory, using economic logic, with …
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