Piero Sraffa Quotes

Piero Sraffa was an influential Italian economist who served as lecturer of economics at the University of Cambridge. His book Production of Commodities by Means of Commodities is taken as founding the neo-Ricardian school of economics. Wikipedia  

✵ 5. August 1898 – 3. September 1983
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Piero Sraffa Quotes

“In economic theory the conclusions are sometimes less interesting than the route by which they are reached.”

Piero Sraffa

October 1975 in letter to C.P. Blitch, as cited in: Riccardo Bellofiore, ‎Scott Carter (2014), Towards a New Understanding of Sraffa. p. 199

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