Towards a New Understanding of Sraffa: Insights from Archival Research [Hardcover]

This book provides fresh insights on Piero Sraffa's work, by examining previously unpublished papers from Sraffa archives. It offers new perspectives on the connection between Sraffa amd Marx, and examines Sraffa's approach to money, the role of equilibrium and of the surplus in economic theory.1. Introduction; Riccardo Bellofiore and Scott Carter 2. Surprise in the Archive: Reactions to Sraffa's Papers; Jonathan Smith PART I 3. On The Neoricardian Criticism of Irrelevance; Dario Preti 4. Sraffa and the Standard Commodity; Scott Carter Comment on Preti and Carter; Pier Luigi Porta Response to Porta; Scott Carter PART II 5. A New Perspective on Sraffa; Ajit Sinha 6. The Standard System and the Tendency of the (Maximum) Rate of Profit to Fall  Marx and Sraffa: There and Back; Stefano Perri Comment on Sinha and Perri: Hamlet without the Prince: Sraffa (and Marx) without Competition; Andrea Salanti A Response to the Comments by Professor Salanti; Ajit Sinha A Note on Professor Salanti's Comments; Stefano Perri PART III 7. The Essentiality of Money in the Sraffa Papers; Ghislain Deleplace 8. The positive surplus hypothesis: social versus physical objectivity; Jean Cartelier On Surplus and Money in Sraffa: A Comment on Cartelier and Deleplace; Gugliemlo Chiodi 9. The Loneliness of the Long Distance Thinker: Sraffa, Marx, and the Critique of Economic Theory; Riccardo Bellofiore

The book contains seven papers & that span overdifferent topics of classical political economy both old and modern. & Overall,all the essays presented in the book focus on relevant and stimulating issuesfor people interested in classical political economy & . (Enrico Bellino, Historyof Economic Ideas, Vol. 23 (2), December, 2015)