11 Piero Sraffa’s early work on joint production Probing into the intricacies of multiple-product systems

Heinz D. Kurz and Neri Salvadori

DOI: 10.4324/9781003138709-14

Original paper: Heinz D. Kurz and Neri Salvadori (2014) Piero Sraffa’s early work on joint production: probing into the intricacies of multiple-product systems in Fabrice Tricou and Daniella Leeman (eds), Économie mathématique et Histoire: Hommage à Christian Bidard, 55–73. Paris: Presses universitaires de Paris Ouest.

11.1 Introduction

In his essay ‘Is von Neumann square?’ Christian Bidard (1986) showed that, flukes apart, in the von Neumann model (von Neumann 1945) the number of processes operated equals the number of commodities the prices of which have to be ascertained ...

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