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8 unusual facts about Piero Sraffa


Bernard Schmitt

After its doctoral dissertation (Paris, 1958) he continues his studies at the University of Cambridge (UK), under the supervision of Piero Sraffa and Dennis Robertson.

General equilibrium theory

Anglo-American economists became more interested in general equilibrium in the late 1920s and 1930s after Piero Sraffa's demonstration that Marshallian economists cannot account for the forces thought to account for the upward-slope of the supply curve for a consumer good.

Ian Steedman

Steedman has been recognised as one of the leading Neo-Ricardian economic theorists with work in the areas overlapping with those of Marx, Sraffa, Marshall, Jevons and Wicksteed.

Ladislaus Bortkiewicz

Piero Sraffa (1960) has provided the complete generalization of the simultaneous method for classical and Marxian analysis.

Price

Marginalist theory lacked anything like a theory of the social framework of real market functioning, and criticism sparked off by the capital controversy initiated by Piero Sraffa revealed that most of the foundational tenets of the marginalist theory of value either reduced to tautologies, or that the theory was true only if counter-factual conditions applied.

Robin Hahnel

Hahnel's work in economic theory and analysis is informed by the work of Marx, Keynes, Piero Sraffa, Michał Kalecki, and Joan Robinson, among others.

Ronald L. Meek

In 1946 Meek moved to Cambridge, England with a Strathcona studentship to read for a Ph.D. under Piero Sraffa and Maurice Dobb.

Trevor J. Barnes

Trevor Barnes received his Ph.D. in 1983 at University of Minnesota with a thesis under the supervision of Eric Sheppard titled The Geography of Value, Production, and Distribution: Theoretical Economic Geography after Sraffa.



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