Piero Sraffa's Political Economy

A century after his birth, this volume presents a re-assessment of the life and work of Piero Sraffa, one of the great economists of the 20th-century. From his anti-Marshellian articles of 1925 and 1926 to his work on the theory of capital, “Production of Commodities by Means of Commodities”, Sraffa’s contribution to the study of economics is closely examined.

Author Biography

Terenzio Cozzi is Professor of Economics at the University of Torino, Italy. He is also Professor of Money and Finance, Coripe Master of Economics, Torino. He has previously authored Teoria dello sviluppo economico, and Elementi di economia politica: Un testo europeo (with S. Zamagni), and has published essays and articles in the fields of macroeconomics, growth and cycles, and Keynesian economics. Roberto Marchionatti is Professor of Economics at the University of Torino, Italy. His previous publications include Karl Marx Critical Responses and “From Our Correspondent”, Luigi Einaudi’s Articles in The Economist, 1908–1946, and he has published extensively in the fields of economic theory, industrial economics and history of economic thought.