From ‘Pool of Profits’ to Surplus and Deficit Industries: Archival Evidence on the Evolution of Piero Sraffa’s Thought

Scott Carter ()

Chapter 1 in SRAFFA AND ALTHUSSER RECONSIDERED; NEOLIBERALISM ADVANCING IN SOUTH AFRICA, ENGLAND, AND GREECE, 2014, vol. 29, pp 3-61 from Paul Zarembka

Abstract: This chapter argues that the Marxian theory of exploitation underlies the concepts of surplus and deficit industries that appear in Sraffa’s (1960) Production of Commodities by Means of Commodities. This is seen from archival research of the unpublished papers of Piero Sraffa housed at the Wren Library, Trinity College, University of Cambridge. There it is shown that the origin of these concepts lies in the Marxian theory of exploitation that Sraffa developed regarding the notion of the ‘pool of profits’ the Italian economist utilized over a 14-year period from 1942 to 1956. The chapter engages in an extensive textual study of the archival evidence and then presents a simple analytical model of these relations.

Keywords: Sraffa; Marx; Solow (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: B31 B41 B51 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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