This assortment bargains a serious review of the broadcast works of Piero Sraffa, one of many top economists of the 20 th century, and their legacy for the economics career. the subjects coated discover Sraffa's interpretation of the classical economists; his thought of price and distribution; his critique of partial and common neoclassical equilibrium concept; his specialize in the matter of capital; and his critique of Hayek's financial overinvestment thought of the enterprise cycle. particular concerns investigated comprise intertemporal common equilibrium concept and the capital challenge; the likelihood of reswitching; Ricardo, Malthus, and the corn version; and the which means and implication of the capital controversy. one of the individuals are a number of the world's top scholars of Sraffian economics.
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