Piero Sraffa

Introduction Early Life and Writings: The Critique of Marshallian Theory An Italian in Cambridge Production of Commodities by Means of Commodities Basic and Non-Basic Products The Standard Commodity Critique of the Marginalist Approach Interpreting Production of Commodities by Means of Commodities The Sraffa Legacy

ALESSANDRO RONCAGLIA is Professor of Economics at the University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy. He is a member of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei and editor of Moneta e Credito. Among his publications, The Wealth of Ideas: A History of Economic Thought won the Blanqui Prize of the European Association for the History of Economic Thought.