Towards a New Understanding of Sraffa

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. Introduction

   1. Introduction

      • Riccardo Belloflore, Scott Carter

      Pages 1-8

3. Surprise in the Archive: Reactions to Sraffa’s Papers

   1. Surprise in the Archive: Reactions to Sraffa’s Papers

      • Jonathan Smith

      Pages 9-21

4. Part I

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 23-23

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   2. On the Neoricardian Criticism of Irrelevance

      • Dario Preti

      Pages 25-46

   3. Sraffa and the Standard Commodity

      • Scott Carter

      Pages 47-78

5. Part II

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 79-79

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   2. A New Perspective on Sraffa

      • Ajit Sinha

      Pages 81-93

   3. The Standard System and the Tendency of the (Maximum) Rate of Profit to Fall — Marx and Sraffa: There and Back

      • Stefano Perri

      Pages 94-136

6. Part III

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 137-137

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   2. The Essentiality of Money in the Sraffa Papers

      • Ghislain Deleplace

      Pages 139-166

   3. The Positive Surplus Hypothesis: Social versus Physical Objectivity

      • Jean Cartelier

      Pages 167-197

   4. The Loneliness of the Long Distance Thinker: Sraffa, Marx, and the Critique of Economic Theory

      • Riccardo Bellofiore

      Pages 198-240

7. Back Matter

   Pages 241-257

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This book provides fresh insights on Piero Sraffa's work, by examining previously unpublished papers from Sraffa archives.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.

• Sraffa
• Marx
• Money
• Equilibrium
• Value
• Price
• economic theory
• equilibrium
• money

“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)

• University of Bergamo, Italy

  Riccardo Bellofiore

• The University of Tulsa, USA

  Scott Carter

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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