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There is an on-going controversy on the interpretation of David Ricardo's wage theory, which has undoubtedly been fueled by the existence of contradictions and difficulties in Ricardo's own treatment of wages. The aim of this paper is to clarify the sources of these difficulties, and to trace their possible historical and analytical reasons. To this end, Ricardo's contribution is put in historical context, and compared with the received doctrine of his time, that is, with Adam Smith's wage theory. This comparison shows that there are many Smithian elements in Ricardo, and that the problems emerge when Ricardo departs from Smith. These problems are essentially the coexistence of Smithian and Ricardian notions of the natural wage in Ricardo's work and the difficulties in reconciling the latter with the distinction drawn by Ricardo between natural and market variables. The reason.for Ricardo's partial departure from Smith, it will be argued, may have been his wish to render more clear-cut his conclusions concerning the tendency of the profit rate to fall in consequence of a rising price of corn. The effort to clarify the difficulties in Ricardo's theory and the comparison with Smith also entail an interpretation that differs in important respects from those found on both the main sides of the controversy over his wage theory.

PART I: SRAFFA'S CONTRIBUTION AND CONTEMPORARY STREAMS IN ECONOMIC ANALYSIS 1. Sraffa's System in Relation to Some Main Currents in Unorthodox Economics-- Tony Aspromourgos 2. Sraffians, Other Post-Keynesians, and the Controversy Over Centres of Gravitation-- Marc Lavoie 3. Piero Sraffa and Shackle's Years of High Theory - Sraffa's Significance in the History of Economic Theories-- Heinrich Bortis 4. Sraffa's and Wittgenstein's Reciprocal Influences: Forms of life' and Snapshots-- Richard Arena 5. Sraffa, Sen and Non-causal Representations in Social Analysis-- Andrea Ginzburg 6. Disequilibrium and Reproduction Prices: Some Extensions of Sraffa's Model-- Carlo Benetti, Christian Bidard and Edith Klimovsky PART II: THE EVOLUTION OF SRAFFA'S IDEAS AND THE MANUSCRIPTS 7. Piero Sraffa and the Future of Economics - A Personal Evaluation-- Luigi Pasinetti 8. Sraffa's Lectures on Continental Banking-- Marcello de Cecco 9. The Construction of Long-Run Market Supply Curves: Some Notes on Sraffa's Critique of Partial Equilibrium-- Giuseppe Freni and Neri Salvadori 10. A Pictorial Approach to the Standard Commodity with a Digression-- Giorgio Gilibert 11. On Sraffa's Corrected Organic Composition of Capital-- Scott Carter PART III: SRAFFA'S LEGACY AND THE INTERPRETATION OF RICARDO 12. Rent, as a Share of Produce, Not Governed by Proportions-- Christian Gehrke 13. Ricardo's Writings in Russia: Influence and Interpretations-- Gennady Borgomazov and Denis Melnik

Written on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the publication of Piero Sraffa's Production of Commodities by Means of Commodities, the papers selected and contained in this book accounts for the work completed around the two central aspects of his contribution to economic analysis, namely the criticism of the neoclassical (or 'marginalist') theory of value and distribution, and the reconstruction of economic theory along the lines of the Classical approach. Divided into three volumes, the book debates the most fruitful routes for advancements in this field and their implications for applied and policy analysis. This first volumes focuses on the critique of general equilibrium theory and the determinants of income distribution, together with the related issue of the method of analysis which characterises the Classical theory and the marginalist approach.

This second volume of the book Sraffa and the Reconstruction of Economic Theory focuses on the theory of output and growth as developed in the modern revival of classical approach. Written on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the publication of Piero Sraffa's Production of Commodities by Means of Commodities, the papers selected and contained in this book accounts for the work completed around the two central aspects of his contribution to economic analysis, namely the criticism of the neoclassical (or 'marginalist') theory of value and distribution, and the reconstruction of economic theory along the lines of the Classical approach. Divided into three volumes, the book debates the most fruitful routes for advancements in this field and their implications for applied and policy analysis. This second volume focuses on the theory of output and growth as developed in the modern Classical approach on the basis of the extension to the long run of the Keynesian principle of effective demand, and on the implications of the revival of the Classical approach for policy analysis and for understanding the evolution of the international economic order in the last few decades

Written on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the publication of Piero Sraffa's Production of Commodities by Means of Commodities, the papers selected and contained in Sraffa and the Reconstruction of Economic Theory account for the work completed around the two central aspects of his contribution to economic analysis, namely the criticism of the neoclassical (or marginalist) theory of value and distribution, and the reconstruction of economic theory along the lines of the classical approach. Divided into three volumes, Sraffa and the Reconstruction of Economic Theory debates the most fruitful routes for advancements in this field and their implications for applied and policy analysis. This third volume collects papers concerning the evolution of Sraffa's ideas and the interpretation of his contribution in relation to other streams in economics, methodology and the history of economic thought.