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In the history of economics, Piero Sraffa is an enigma. His reputation as a major economic theorist rests on but three works: the Economic Journal article of 1926, the Introduction to his edition of Ricardo’s Principles (the first of the 11 volumes of the complete Works and Correspondence of David Ricardo, which established Sraffa as the finest scholar to have edited a major work in the literature of economics), and the 99 pages of Production of Commodities by Means of Commodities, a sparse, terse collection of logical propositions, the significance of which is a matter of often heated debate.
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Eatwell, J., Panico, C. (2018). Sraffa, Piero (1898–1983). In: The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95189-5_1349
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