6 Classical economics after Sraffa1

Heinz D. Kurz and Neri Salvadori

DOI: 10.4324/9781003138709-8

Original paper: Heinz D. Kurz and Neri Salvadori (2015) Classical Economics after Sraffa, Cahiers d’économie politique / Papers in Political Economy, 69, 45–72.

6.1 Introduction

It can hardly be disputed that the edition of The Works and Correspondence of David Ricardo and especially Piero Sraffa’s Introduction in Volume I, containing Ricardo’s Principles (Sraffa, 1951), together with Sraffa’s Production of Commodities by Means of Commodities (Sraffa, 1960), had a major impact on the way in which the Classical economists, especially Ricardo, are seen today. Sraffa’s contributions cast new light on the centrepiece of Classical economics – the ...

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