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Sraffa, Piero, 1898–1983 (B3)
Born in Turin, the son of a law professor, and educated at Turin University He was a professor at the Universities of Perugia and Cagliari from 1924 to 1926 before his long and influential Cambridge, UK, career successively at King’s and Trinity Colleges from 1927 to his death. His move to Cambridge was made possible by an article attacking the Marshallian THEORY OF THE FIRM published by the Economic Journal (1926), the first indication of his theoretical brilliance. His greatest contribution to economics was his edition of the works of RICARDO (1951–73) and his most controversial a short book, Production of Commodities by Means of Commodities (1960), which began a critique of economics that founded the NEO-RICARDIAN School.
LEONTIEF and Pasinetti saw his work more as another example of linear production theory
References
Roncaglia, A. (1977) ‘The Sraffian revolution’, in S.Weintraub (ed.) Modern Economic Thought, Oxford: Basil Blackwell.
Steedman, I. (1988) Piero Sraffa, Brighton: Wheatsheaf.
——(ed.) (1989) Sraffian Economics, Vols I and II (Schools of Thought in Economics No. 4), Aldershot: Edward Elgar.
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