Open Questions

Abstract

As stated in the Introduction, the purpose of this book — of which the author and the reader have now reached the end — is twofold: to join economic concepts pursued in the legacy of Richard Stone with those inherited from Sraffa, and to be entertaining in this endeavour. In ancient Greece the enacting of a set of three tragedies was followed by one comedy. Although the reader may have been subjected to a tragic breakdown as a result being confronted with issues that are usually treated separately by the economics discipline, in this book the comedy does not follow. It will have to wait until a future date, as will some more serious questions that have sprung up in this book but not been answered.