Competition, Value and Distribution in Classical Economics

Table of contents

1. Cover
2. Half Title
3. Series Page
4. Title Page
5. Copyright Page
6. Table of Contents
7. About the authors
8. List of contributors
9. Acknowledgements
10. 1 Introduction
11. I Classical economics, old and new
    1. 2 David Ricardo: on the art of ‘elucidating economic principles’ in the face of a ‘labyrinth of difficulties’
    2. 3 Ricardo on machinery: an analysis of Ricardo’s examples
    3. 4 Mark Blaug revisited: a rebel with many causes
12. II On Sraffa’s contribution
    1. 5 The construction of long-run market supply curves: some notes on Sraffa’s critique of partial equilibrium analyses
    2. 6 Classical economics after Sraffa
    3. 7 On the ‘photograph’ interpretation of Piero Sraffa’s production equations: a view from the Sraffa archive
13. III Production of commodities by means of commodities in its making
    1. 8 Sraffa’s constructive and interpretive work, and Marx
    2. 9 Don’t treat too ill my Piero!: interpreting Sraffa’s papers
    3. 10 Besicovitch, Sraffa, and the existence of the standard commodity
    4. 11 Piero Sraffa’s early work on joint production: probing into the intricacies of multiple-product systems
14. IV Competition and monopoly
    1. 12 The Classical notion of competition revisited
    2. 13 Adam Smith on monopoly theory: making good a lacuna
    3. 14 Adam Smith on markets, competition, and violations of natural liberty
15. Subject index
16. Name index