Sraffa and the Reconstruction of Economic Theory: Volume One Theories of Value and Distribution

Cover......Page 2
Contents......Page 7
List of Tables and Figures......Page 9
Preface......Page 12
Acknowledgements......Page 14
List of Contributors......Page 15
Introduction......Page 17
Part I: The Capital Controversy and General Equilibrium Analysis......Page 29
1 On the Present State of the Capital Controversy......Page 31
2 Two Strands of Thought in Pierangelo Garegnani's Capital Theory Critique......Page 54
3 Only a Few Techniques Matter! On the Number of Curves on the Wage Frontier......Page 62
4 On the Stability of the Ramsey Accumulation Path......Page 86
5 Malinvaud on Wicksell's Legacy to Capital Theory: Some Critical Remarks......Page 121
6 Capital and Stationary States: Considerations on the Reasons Adduced for Abandoning the Method of Normal Positions......Page 145
Part II: The Revival and Development of the Classical Theory of Distribution......Page 167
7 Marx's Theory of Wages and the Revival of the Surplus Approach......Page 169
8 On Advanced Capitalism and the Determinants of the Change in Income Distribution: A Classical Interpretation......Page 192
9 Alternative 'Closures' to Sraffa's System: Some Reflections in the Light of the Changes in Functional Income Distribution in the United States......Page 208
10 Sraffa and Keynes: Two Ways of Making a 'Revolution' in Economic Theory......Page 234
11 Causality and Structure in Piecemeal Macroeconomic Modelling......Page 257
12 On the Link between Functional and Personal Distribution in Italy......Page 276
13 Exchange Rate Policy, Distributive Conflict and Structural Heterogeneity: The Argentinean and Brazilian Cases......Page 300
Index......Page 325