This article highlights some of Sraffa’s main contributions to the methodology of economics. It argues that Sraffa rejected counterfactual reasoning and hence the ‘marginal method’ of analysis. Sraffa’s theory is built solely on factual and objective information and...

We argue that the cost of rural–urban migration may act as an effective entry deterrence for successful migration to the urban sector. This cost results in some form of price rationing as the cash holding of a typical rural household falls short of the required cost. We demonstrate that...

The principle of ‘unity of sciences’ (comprising natural, social and human sciences) has a long history. While the term ‘unity’ lends itself to various interpretations, in recent years it is generally understood as ‘methodological unity’. In opposition to...

We present an enriched cognitive approach to the political economy of reform based on the notion of distributed cognition. Our aim is to describe the origination causation of economic reforms highlighting the interactions between people, artefacts as well as internal and external...