Acknowledgements xiii List of contributors xiv Preface xv Terenzio Cozzi Roberto Marchionatti Introduction xvii Roberto Marchionatti A memoir xxxv Sergio Steve PART I On Sraffa's biography 1 (40) 1 A child of Cultura Positiva: Turin and the education of Piero Sraffa 3 (20) Angelo D'Orsi 2 Piero Sraffa's early approach to political economy: from the gymnasium to the beginning of his academic career 23 (18) Nerio Naldi PART II Sraffa's contribution to the Cambridge debates in the 1920s and 1930s 41 (96) 3 Sraffa and the criticism of Marshall in the 1920s 43 (38) Roberto Marchionatti 4 Sraffa and Cambridge economics, 1928--1931 81 (19) Maria Cristina Marcuzzo 5 On some controversial aspects of Sraffa's theoretical system in the second half of the 1920s 100 (23) Duccio Cavalieri Comments 121 (2) 6 On Marshall's representative firm: a comment on Marchionatti 123 (5) Tiziano Raffaelli 7 Why did Sraffa lose interest in imperfect competition? A comment on Marcuzzo 128 (9) Marco Dardi PART III Continuity and change in Sraffa's thought: from the 1920s to Production of Commodities by Means of Commodities 137 (100) 8 Continuity and change in Sraffa's thought: an archival excursus 139 (18) Luigi L. Pasinetti 9 Some notes on the Sraffa Papers 157 (8) Giancarlo De Vivo 10 From the 1925--6 articles to the 1960 book: some notes on Sraffa's not so implicit methodology 165 (22) Andrea Salanti Rodolfo Signorino 11 Sraffa's edition of Ricardo's Works: reconstruction of a reconstruction 187 (20) Annalisa Rosselli 12 Production of Commodities by Means of Commodities between criticism and reconstruction: the given quantities assumption 207 (18) Alessandro Roncaglia Comments 223 (2) 13 A comment on Salanti and Signorino 225 (3) Marina Bianchi 14 A comment on Rosselli 228 (3) Pier Luigi Porta 15 A comment on Roncaglia 231 (6) Giorgio Lunghini PART IV Specific topics 237 (150) 16 Production of Commodities by Means of Commodities and the open economy 239 (15) Ian Steedman 17 Sraffa and the mathematicians: Frank Ramsey and Alister Watson 254 (31) Heinz D. Kurz Neri Salvadori 18 Monetary analysis in Sraffa's writings 285 (26) Carlo Panico 19 On the relationship between Sraffa and Keynes 311 (22) Fabio Ranchetti 20 Sraffa on Hayek: unexpected influences 333 (26) Carlo Zappia Comments 357 (2) 21 A comment on Steedman 359 (3) Salvatore Baldone 22 Monetary analyses in Sraffa's writings: a comment on Panico 362 (15) Riccardo Bellofiore 23 Whatever happened to Dr Hayek after the debate with Mr Sraffa? A comment on Zappia 377 (10) Nicolo De Vecchi Bibliography 387 (24) Index 411