Bibliographic data
Works
- Document type:
- Works
- Collection:
- Josef Steindl Collection
- Title:
- Sraffa: Measurement and Aggregation: Revised version
- Scope:
- Typoskript, 25 Blätter
- Year of publication:
- 1989
- Language:
- English
- Description:
- My purpose is not an appraisal of Sraffa's work or a probing into his aims or philosophy. I want to deal with a particular aspect. Sraffa's book is concerned with measurement, concepts, aggregation. Indeed, a good deal of the intellectual difficulties which he has mastered are precisely in this field. He had to find a concept which would make it possible to deal with a multi-commodity economy in the same way as if it were a corn economy (one commodity economy of Ricardo). He foud the concept in the standard cmmodity. It is an aggregate and yet a physical measure like corn, independent of prices and distribution. It may serve to measure consumption and investement, wages and profits alike. It is a macro-economic concept derived from data for individual commodities. (Auszug, S. 1) Description of the book provided by www.abebooks.com (21.03.2017): "This volume contains the proceedings of an economics conference held in Florence, Italy in August 1985, to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the publication of Piero Sraffa's "Production of Commodities by Means of Commodities", a pioneering work which opened up debates on the fundamental issues in economic theory. The purpose of the conference was to elucidate some of the basic issues in theory and to assess the efforts needed to develop the classical approach to economic analysis and its extensions in applied fields. The conference invited the main participants in these debates to contribute papers whereby they could elaborate their interpretations of Sraffa's work and evaluate its impact on the present economic theory. All key papers and two round tables of discussion are included in the text."
- Subject:
- Sraffa, Piero <1898-1983> Makroökonomisches Modell
- Note:
- Zusatz zum Titel fingiert. - Auf der ersten Seite handschriftliche Anmerkung "Revised version" (nicht vom Verfasser).
- Related work:
- Steindl, Josef: Sraffa. Measurement and Aggregation. In: Schefold, Bertram und Bharadwaj, Krishna (Hrsg.): Essays on Piero Sraffa. Critical Perspectives on the Revival of Classical Theory. London: Routledge 1992, S. 377-390
- Topic:
- Economic history,economic theory,current developments
- JEL Classification:
- E11 [General Aggregative Models: Marxian, Sraffian, Kaleckian]
- Shelfmark:
- S/M.61.2
- Rights of use:
- All rights reserved
- Access:
- Access to documents restricted
