In this article, part of an ongoing discussion, Samuelson (2000) is taken as the occasion for a critical examination of Samuelson's work on the classical economists and Sraffa, a subject of continuing interest for that author, especially after Sraffa (1960). The article argues for the existence...

Sraffa's notes titled 'Summer 1927' (D3/12/3, Trinity Catalogue) presumably written while preparing for the lectures on the theory of value he intended to hold in Cambridge that autumn, when examined jointly with the lectures in fact delivered in 1928-31 and other manuscripts from the period...

Sraffa's mature work is seen here as a re-discovery and resumption of the 'submerged and forgotten' approach of the 'old classical economists from Adam Smith to Ricardo'. Wages determined by broad economic and social forces entail there product prices determined independently of demand and...