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Piero Sraffa FBA (5 August 1898 – 3 September 1983) was an influential Italian economist who served as lecturer of economics at the University of Cambridge. His book Production of Commodities by Means of Commodities is taken as founding the neo-Ricardian school of economics.
Piero Sraffa was an Italian economist who is considered as the founder of the neo-Ricardian school of economics. Born in an influential and wealthy Jewish, he received the best of liberal education. Concurrently, he was also taught English, German and French at home.
Sraffa began teaching in 1928 on advanced theory of value. He also in the late 1920s began his interpretative and reconstructive work on the classical economists and his criticism of marginalist theory, which finally materialized in his 1960 book, Production of Commodities by Means of Commodities.
Piero Sraffa, 1898-1983. One of the economic giants of the century, Piero Sraffa was at the same time one of the sparest writers of economics - yet each one of his few pieces was tremendous in its turn.
SRAFFA, PIERO (1898–1983), British economist. Sraffa was born in Turin, Italy, the son of a professor of law. He became a professor of economics at the University of Caligari, Sardinia, at the age of 28 but was forced to flee to Britain the following year after his writings offended Mussolini.
His was a total involve- ment in work, reflecting an assiduous and un- compromising objectivity in the application of his razor-sharp reasoning, while he was deeply aware of the social, political and historical dimensions of economic theories. As a scholar, his range of interests was ex-.
Oct 18, 2016 · 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...
