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Piero Sraffa (1898-1983)
"Compared
to Sraffa, Marx's attempt and failure to make the system (and his book
on the system...) self replicating can only appear illegitimate, whatever
the Althusserians may say: what prevents Marx from making a 'scientific'
description, is that he must fulfil the function of the prosecutor assigned
to him by his desire for an integration of goods, means and persons into
a single body. Sraffa's 'body' is as elusive as the body of capital, commodities
are themselves only evident there as the limits of an endless metamorphosis;
which suggests the congruence of capital's endless metamorphisis; which
suggests the congruence of capital's operation with that of a theoretical
system" ( Lyotard - Libidinal Economy p 152)
On the Relations Between Costs and Quantities Produced - Annali di Economia (PDF)
The Laws of Returns under Competitive Conditions - 1926, Economic Journal
The work and correspondence of David Ricardo - edited by Sraffa
Online catalogue of Sraffa's papers (no online texts)
