Piero Sraffa

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Piero Sraffa was an Italian economist whose critical work on value and distribution, especially in "Production of Commodities by Means of Commodities," profoundly challenged neoclassical theory and revitalized classical political economy.

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instanceOf economist
person
associatedWith Cambridge School of economics NERFINISHED
Trinity College, Cambridge NERFINISHED
authorOf Production of Commodities by Means of Commodities NERFINISHED
birthCountry Italy NERFINISHED
birthDate 1898-08-05
birthPlace Turin NERFINISHED
burialPlace Cambridge NERFINISHED
contributedTo Cambridge capital controversy NERFINISHED
criticized marginalist theory of value
neoclassical capital theory
deathDate 1983-09-03
editorOf The Works and Correspondence of David Ricardo NERFINISHED
educatedAt University of Turin NERFINISHED
employer Cambridge University
surface form: University of Cambridge
familyName Sraffa NERFINISHED
fieldOfWork economics
history of economic thought
political economy
givenName Piero NERFINISHED
influenced Joan Robinson NERFINISHED
Luigi Pasinetti NERFINISHED
Pierangelo Garegnani NERFINISHED
Sraffian economics NERFINISHED
neo-Ricardian economics NERFINISHED
post-Keynesian economics NERFINISHED
influencedBy Alfred Marshall NERFINISHED
Antonio Gramsci NERFINISHED
David Ricardo NERFINISHED
Karl Marx
knownFor Production of Commodities by Means of Commodities NERFINISHED
critique of neoclassical economics
revival of classical political economy
work on value and distribution
languageSpoken English
Italian
mainInterest capital theory
distribution theory
input–output analysis
theory of value
name Piero Sraffa NERFINISHED
nationality Italian
notableWork Production of Commodities by Means of Commodities NERFINISHED
politicalConnection friend of Antonio Gramsci
positionHeld Professor of Economics at the University of Cambridge
publicationDate 1960
theoreticalContribution price system based on production of commodities by means of commodities
surplus-based approach to value and distribution
workLocation Cambridge NERFINISHED

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