This book aims to show how Sraffa's theoretical contributions could be pursued in new directions, in effect providing an alternative paradigm to the postclassical economic theory and challenging the persistent dominance of a widespread economic culture based on that theory.

The aim of this chapter is ultimately addressed to interpreting the recent phenomenon of the contemporary Large-Scale Land Acquisitions (LSLAs) - popularly referred to as "Land Grabbing" (LG) - in light of Sraffa's notion of "viability".The most generally recognized factors behind the recent...

This paper attempts to reconstruct and assess the intellectual itinerary of Hicks on the valuation of social income. His 1958 and 1981 papers on that topic have been wholly ignored in the economic literature. In both of them differentmeasures of real income are provided. These show to what...