Piero Sraffa – Doing ‘History in Reverse'

Eric Rahim
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Eric Rahim: University of Strathclyde

No 22-04, Working Papers from University of Strathclyde Business School, Department of Economics

Abstract: This paper follows a suggestion made by Piero Sraffa in the late 1920s about the writing of his book that was finally published in 1960 – a suggestion he did not follow. The suggestion consisted in the writing of a history of political economy, starting with the ideas of the French Physiocrats, and its further development by Adam Smith and David Ricardo. This history was intended as an introduction to the 1960 book. The paper concludes with a brief discussion of the ‘central propositions’ of the 1960 book, seen as a rigorous theoretical statement of the political economy of these ‘old’ economists.

Keywords: Sraffa; Physiocrats; Adam Smith; David Ricardo; Karl Marx (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
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