Don't treat too ill my Piero! interpreting Sraffa's papers

Cambridge Journal of Economics

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1535-1569

  Kurz, Heinz D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

Adam smith; Classical political economy; David ricardo; Income distribution; Karl marx; Objectivism; Piero sraffa; Value

Indexed keywords

BIOGRAPHY; INCOME DISTRIBUTION; POLITICAL ECONOMY;

EID: 84871604807     PISSN: 0309166X     EISSN: 14643545     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cje/bes065     Document Type: Article

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