Written on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the publication of Piero Sraffa's Production of Commodities by Means of Commodities, the papers selected and contained in Sraffa and the Reconstruction of Economic Theory account for the work completed around the two central aspects of his contribution to economic analysis, namely the criticism of the neoclassical (or marginalist) theory of value and distribution, and the reconstruction of economic theory along the lines of the Classical approach. Divided into three volumes, Sraffa and the Reconstruction of Economic Theory debates the most fruitful routes for advancement in this field and their implications for applied and policy analysis.
This second volume focuses on the theory of output and growth as developed in the modern classical approach on the basis of the extension to the long run of the Keynesian principle of effective demand, and on the implications of the revival of the classical approach for policy analysis and for understanding the evolution of the international economic order in the last few decades.
Author Biography:
Carlos Aguiar de Medeiros, IE, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Sergio Cesaratto, University of Siena, Italy
Roberto Ciccone, Roma Tre University, Italy
Óscar Dejuán, University of Castilla La Mancha, Spain
Esther Dweck, IE, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Fabio N. P. de Freitas, IE, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Paolo Leon, Roma Tre University, Italy
Antonella Palumbo, Roma Tre University, Italy
Fabio Petri, University of Siena, Italy
Franklin Serrano, IE, IE, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Matthew Smith, University of Sydney, Australia
Attilio Trezzini, Roma Tre University, Italy
