Sraffa, the Configuration of Exchange, and Value/Price Expressions of Labour Time in Surplus-Producing Triangular Trade

Scott Carter

A chapter in Including a Symposium on New Directions in Sraffa Scholarship, 2017, vol. 35B, pp 195-233 from Emerald Group Publishing Limited

Abstract: This essay explores certain aspects of single product industry basic systems of the type Sraffa develops in Part I ofProduction of Commodities by Means of Commodities. It focusses on triangular trade as the simplest expression of the more generaln-commodity case. Two elements of the framework are explored: (i) the relation of exchange between all commodities, conceived as theconfiguration of exchangewhich is applicable to the subsistence and surplus models, and (ii) the value/price expressions of labour time, applicable to the surplus model only, which posits the productivity of, remuneration to and extraction from living labour added to the system. This analysis complements and extends the Marxian reading of Sraffa’s notions of surplus and deficit industries first explored in Carter (2014b). The methodology of ‘given quantities’ in expositing the relations developed is adopted in this essay as it corresponds to the same method employed by Sraffa. This allows readers to easily move from the present essay to Sraffa’s book and importantly his archival notes which are now for all interested parties available as colour digital images on the Wren Library website.

Keywords: Sraffa; triangular trade; configuration of exchange; price/value expressions of labour-time (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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