Abstract
Sraffa’s 1960 book The Production of Commodities by Means of Commodities has spawned an extensive literature but still needs to relate itself to the vast post-1945 finite mathematics literature of von Neumann, Dantzig, Kuhn-Tucker-Gail and Bellman. The Sraffa-Leontief circulating capital model provides by itself a prism with which to diffract the paradigms of Marx, Ricardo, and various brands of neoclassicism. It can serve to help judge Ricardo’s editor and to illuminate the unity in Sraffa’s scientific vision, from before 1926 until death in 1983.
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Samuelson, P.A. (2018). Sraffian Economics. In: The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95189-5_1667
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