Sraffa or an Alternative Economics

Cover......Page 2
Contents......Page 7
List of Tables, Figures and Diagrams......Page 9
Acknowledgements......Page 10
List of Contributors......Page 11
Introduction......Page 13
Part I: Reactions......Page 33
1 Book Reviews on Production of Commodities by Means of Commodities......Page 35
Part II: Economics......Page 55
2 Sraffa’s Prices......Page 57
3 Sraffa after Marx: An Open Issue......Page 80
4 The Classical ‘Surplus’ Approach and the Theory of the Welfare State and Public Pensions......Page 105
5 Sraffa 1926 and Sraffa 1960: An Attempt to Bridge the Gap......Page 126
6 Savings, Investment and Capital in a System of General Intertemporal Equilibrium – an Extended Comment on Garegnani with a Note on Parrinello......Page 139
7 Beyond Capitalism: Sraffa’s Economic Theory......Page 199
8 Notes on Early Development Economics’ Story and Its Relation to Sraffa’s Contribution......Page 211
Part III: Philosophy......Page 221
9 Sraffa: Notes on Moralizing, Money, and Economic Prudence......Page 223
10 What Wittgenstein Owed to Sraffa......Page 239
Part IV: Mathematics......Page 249
11 Some Mathematical Remarks on Sraffa’s Chapter I......Page 251
12 Some Observations on Sraffa and Mathematical Proofs With an Appendix on Sraffa’s Convergence Algorithm......Page 255
13 On the Collaboration between Sraffa and Besicovitch: The ‘Proof of Gradient’......Page 272
14 Sraffa’s Economics in Non-Classical Mathematical Modes......Page 287
Index......Page 307