7 On the ‘photograph’ interpretation of Piero Sraffa’s production equations A view from the Sraffa archive

Heinz D. Kurz and Neri Salvadori1

DOI: 10.4324/9781003138709-9

Original paper: Heinz D. Kurz and Neri Salvadori (2018) On the ‘photograph’ interpretation of Piero Sraffa’s production equations: A view from the Sraffa archive in Marcella Corsi, Jan Kregel, Carlo D’Ippoliti (eds), Classical Economics Today: Essays in Honor of Alessandro Roncaglia, 113–128. London: Anthem Press.

7.1 Introduction

Alessandro Roncaglia in his book Sraffa e la teoria dei prezzi (1975), an English version of which was published as Sraffa and the Theory of Prices (1978), put forward the view that Sraffa’s systems of price equations are best interpreted in terms ...

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