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Author-Name: Giorgio Gattei
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Author-Workplace-Name: Università di Bologna - Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche
Author-Name: Giancarlo Gozzi
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Author-Workplace-Name: Università di Bologna - Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche
Title: Sraffa come economista classico: una congettura possibile? 
(Sraffa as a classical economist: a possible conjecture?)
Abstract: In this paper the authors advance a conjecture according to which Sraffa’s Production of commodities
does it make possible the reinstatement of the analytical program of the classical economists centred
on the labour theory of value by overcoming the problems raised for such a paradigm by the existence
of produced means of production.
Such an interpretation is presented in three successive steps. First of all a reconstruction of the classical
framework of the labour theory of value is presented to argument for its soundness in the case
of a ‘pure’ labour economy. It is then shown how Sraffa could have generalized it in a coherent way
to take into account the case of production with labour and capital goods by adopting the point of
view of the net product, according to which its monetary value is the expression of the lived labour
employed in production. The third and final step suggests that Sraffa could have followed such a path
as can be guessed from his unpublished works that become to be known.
Apart from the consideration of what Sraffa really meant, which is a controversial issue. the point
that is stressed in the paper is that Production of commodities can open the way to the direct extension
of classical labour theory of value to the general case of production with capital goods as newvaluelabour
theory
Classification-JEL: B12, B51, P16
Keywords: teoria del valore-lavoro; economia classica; pensiero sraffiano; neovalore
(Labour theory of value, classical economics, Sraffian economics, neo-value)
Journal: Il Pensiero Economico Italiano
Pages: 75-88
Volume: 18
Issue: 2
Year: 2010
File-URL: http://www.libraweb.net/articoli.php?chiave=201006302&rivista=63
Handle: RePEc:pei:journl:v:18:y:2010:2:4:p:75-88