Piero Sraffa

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. Early Life and Writings: The Critique of Marshallian Theory

   • Alessandro Roncaglia

   Pages 1-21

3. An Italian in Cambridge

   • Alessandro Roncaglia

   Pages 22-40

4. Production of Commodities by Means of Commodities

   • Alessandro Roncaglia

   Pages 41-59

5. Basic and Non-Basic Products

   • Alessandro Roncaglia

   Pages 60-77

6. The Standard Commodity

   • Alessandro Roncaglia

   Pages 78-94

7. Critique of the Marginalist Approach

   • Alessandro Roncaglia

   Pages 95-112

8. Interpreting Production of Commodities by Means of Commodities

   • Alessandro Roncaglia

   Pages 113-137

9. The Sraffa Legacy

   • Alessandro Roncaglia

   Pages 138-161

10. Back Matter

    Pages 162-181

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This book discusses the developments of Sraffian-Ricardian economics, as well as looking at Sraffa's critique of the Marshallian theory of the firm and the industry, his edition of Ricardo's Works and correspondence, his book on production of commodities by means of commodities, and his influence Antonio Gramsci and Ludwig Wittgenstein.

• development
• economics
• production
• theory of the firm

ALESSANDRO RONCAGLIA is Professor of Economics at the University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy. He is a member of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei and editor of Moneta e Credito. Among his publications, The Wealth of Ideas: A History of Economic Thought won the Blanqui Prize of the European Association for the History of Economic Thought.

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