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Author-Name: Eric Rahim
Author-Name-First: Eric
Author-Name-Last: Rahim
Author-Workplace-Name: University of Strathclyde
Title: Piero Sraffa – Doing ‘History in Reverse’
Abstract: This paper follows a suggestion made by Piero Sraffa in the late
1920s about the writing of his book that was finally published in
1960 – a suggestion he did not follow. The suggestion consisted in
the writing of a history of political economy, starting with the ideas
of the French Physiocrats, and its further development by Adam
Smith and David Ricardo. This history was intended as an
introduction to the 1960 book. The paper concludes with a brief
discussion of the ‘central propositions’ of the 1960 book, seen as a
rigorous theoretical statement of the political economy of these ‘old’
economists.
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File-URL: file:///I:/SBS-Fac/Economics/Course-Admin/Discussion%20Papers/2021-2025/2022/Piero%20Sraffa%20%E2%80%93%20Doing%20%E2%80%98History%20in%20Reverse%E2%80%99%2022-4.pdf
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Number: 2204
Classification-JEL: J12
Keywords: Sraffa, Physiocrats, Adam Smith, David Ricardo, Karl Marx
Handle: RePEc:str:wpaper:2204