Piero Sraffa
Piero Sraffa · Philosophy & Social Sciences
Neo-Ricardian economist known for his critique of marginalist value theory
1898, Turin, Italy — 1983, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Italy · United Kingdom
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Sraffa was an Italian economist whose Production of Commodities by Means of Commodities offered a rigorous neo-Ricardian critique of marginalist value and capital theory, reviving classical economics and shaping the Cambridge capital controversies. He also edited the definitive works of David Ricardo. Both his parents were Jewish; a friend of Gramsci and Wittgenstein, he left Fascist Italy for Cambridge.
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Neo-Ricardian economist known for his critique of marginalist value theory
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