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Piero Sraffa: economic reality, the economist and economic theory: an interpretation

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  • Neri Salvadori
  • Rodolfo Signorino

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We carry out a textual analysis of Sraffa's main published contributions to pure economics in order to elaborate a rational reconstruction of an aspect of Sraffa's implicit methodology which has not yet been duly investigated. We refer to the threefold relationship between 'economic reality', 'the economist/observer' and 'economic theory'. We elucidate the constraints which, for Sraffa, should bind the economists' arbitrariness and we trace the elements of continuity and evolution from the 1925-6 critique of Marshallian economics to Production of Commodities.

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  • Neri Salvadori & Rodolfo Signorino, 2007. "Piero Sraffa: economic reality, the economist and economic theory: an interpretation," Journal of Economic Methodology, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 14(2), pages 187-209.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:jecmet:v:14:y:2007:i:2:p:187-209
    DOI: 10.1080/13501780701394086
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    1. Richard Arena, 2019. "Is still to-day the Study of the "Surplus Product" the True Object of Economics?," GREDEG Working Papers 2019-32, Groupe de REcherche en Droit, Economie, Gestion (GREDEG CNRS), Université Côte d'Azur, France.

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