The agents of production are the commodities themselves: On the classical theory of production, distribution and value

Interpreting Classical Economics: Studies in Long-Period Analysis

Volumn 9780203945520, Issue , 2007, Pages 131-158

  Kurz, Heinz D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 84967444077     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203945520     Document Type: Chapter

References (40)

1. Aspromourgos, T., 1996. On the Origins of Classical Economics. Distribution and Value fromWilliam Petty to Adam Smith. Routledge, London, New York.
2. von Bortkiewicz, L., 1906-1907.Wertrechnung und Preisrechnung im Marxschen System Archiv für Sozialwissenschaft und Sozialpolitik 23 (1906), 1-50 (essay I); 25 (1907), 10-51 (essay II); 445-488 (essay III). Büchner, C., 1901. Industrial Evolution. New York.
3. De Vivo, G., 2001. On Torrens's theory of profits. Camb. J. Econom. 25, 697-703.
4. Eldridge, F.R., 1923. Oriental Trade Methods. Appleton, New York.
5. Garegnani, P., 1984. Value and distribution in the Classical economists and Marx. Oxford Economic Papers 36, 291-325.
6. Garegnani, P., 2004. Di una svolta nella posizione teorica nella interpretatzione dei classici in Sraffa nei tardi anni 20. In Atti dei Convegni Lincei 200. Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Roma, pp. 159-194.
7. Gehrke, C., Kurz, H.D., 2006. Sraffa on von Bortkiewicz. Reconstructing the classical theory of value and distribution. History Political Econ., 38:1, 91-149.
8. Gilibert, G., 1981. Isnard, Cournot, Walras, Leontief. Evoluzione di un modello. Annali della Fondazione Luigi Einaudi 15, 129-153.
9. Hoyt, E.E., 1926. Primitive Trade. Its Psychology and Economics. Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co, London.
10. Jevons,W.S., 1871. The Theory of Political Economy. Macmillan, London, New York.
11. Jevons, W.S., 1911. The Theory of Political Economy, fourth ed. Macmillan, London, New York.
12. Kurz, H.D., 1999. From classical rent theory to marginal productivity theory. The works of F.B.W. Hermann and J.H. von Thünen. In: Mongiovi, G., Petri, F. (Eds), Value, Distribution and Capital, Essays in Honour of Pierangelo Garegnani. Routledge, London, pp. 145-164.
13. Kurz, H.D., 2003. The surplus interpretation of the classical economists. In: Biddle, J.E., Davis, J.B., Samuels,W.J. (Eds), The Blackwell Companion to the History of Economic Thought. Blackwell Publishers, Malden, MA, Oxford, pp. 167-183.
14. Kurz, H.D., Salvadori, N., 1995. Theory of Production. A Long-period Analysis. Cambridge, New York, Melbourne (CUP).
15. Kurz, H.D., Salvadori, N., 2000. 'Classical' roots of input-output analysis: a short account of its long prehistory. Econ. Syst. Res. 12, 153-179.
16. Kurz, H.D., Salvadori, N., 2001. Sraffa and the mathematicians: Frank Ramsey and Alister Watson. In: Cozzi, T., Marchionatti, R. (Eds.), Piero Sraffa's Political Economy. A Centenary Estimate. Routledge, London, pp. 187-216. Reprinted in: Kurz, H.D., Salvadori, N. Classical economics and modem theory. Studies in long-period analysis. Routledge, London.
17. Kurz, H.D., Salvadori, N., 2002. One theory or two? Walras's critique of Ricardo. History Political Econ. 34 (2), 365-398.
18. Kurz, H.D., Salvadori, N., 2005. Representing the production and circulation of commodities in material terms. On Sraffa's objectivism. Rev. Political Econ., 17(3), July, 413-441.
19. Marshall, A., 1970. Principles of Economics, first ed., 1890; eight ed., 1920. Macmillan, London (reset and reprinted 1947).
20. Marx, K., 1924-1925. Oeuvres complètes de Karl Marx. Histoire des doctrines économiques. Translated by Molitor, J., eight vols. Alfred Costes, Paris.
21. Marx, K., 1959. In: Engels F. (Ed.), Capital, vol. III. Progress Publishers, Moscow (English translation of Das Kapital, vol. III (1894). Meissner, Hamburg).
22. Metroeconomica, 2001. Symposium on Exhaustible Natural Resources and Sraffian Analysis, vol. 52 (3), pp. 239-328 (special issue).
23. Mill, J., 1826. Elements of Political Economy. First ed., 1821; third ed., 1826. Henry G. Bohn, London.
24. von Neumann, J., 1945. A model of general economic equilibrium. Rev. Econ. Stud. 13, 1-9 (English translation of German original published in 1937).
25. Pareto, V., 1901. Le nuove teorie economiche. Giornale degli economisti e annali di economia 23, 235-259.
26. Pareto, V., 1902a. Les systèmes socialistes, two vols. V. Giard & E. Brière, Paris.
27. Pareto, V., 1902b. Anwendungen der Mathematik auf Nationalökonomie. Encyklopädie der mathematischenWissenschaften, vol. I (7). B.G. Teubner, Leipzig, pp. 1094-1120.
28. Pareto, V., 1906. Manuale di economia politica con una introduzione alla scienza sociale. Societa editrice libreria, Milan.
29. Pasinetti, L.L., 1973. The notion of vertical integration in economic analysis. Metroeconomica 25, 1-29.
30. Petty, W., 1986. In: Hull, C.H. (Ed.), The Economic Writings of Sir William Petty, two vols. Originally published in 1899. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge (reprinted in one volume, Kelley, New York).
31. Quesnay, F., 1972. In: Kuczynski, M., Meek, R.L. (Eds.), Quesnay's Tableau Economique [1759]. Macmillan, London.
32. Ricardo, D., 1951-1973. In: Sraffa, P., Dobb, M.H. (Eds.), TheWorks and Correspondence of David Ricardo, 11 vols. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge (in the text referred to asWorks, volume number).
33. Smith, A., 1976.An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations. The Glasgow Edition of theWorks and Correspondence ofAdam Smith. First published in 1776, vol. 2. Oxford University Press, Oxford.
34. Sraffa, P., 1925. Sulle relazioni fra costo e quantità prodotta (On the relations between cost and quantity produced). Annali di Economia 2, 277-328. In: Pasinetti, L.L. (Ed.), Italian Economic Papers. IL Mulino, Bologna; Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 323-363. Reprinted in: Kurz, H.D., Salvadori, N. (Eds.), The Legacy of Piero Sraffa, two vols. Edward Elgar, Cheltenham.
35. Sraffa, P., 1926. The laws of returns under competitive conditions. Econ. J. 36, 535-550. Reprinted in: Kurz, H.D., Salvadori, N. (Eds.), The Legacy of Piero Sraffa, two vols. Edward Elgar, Cheltenham.
36. Sraffa, P., 1951. Introduction. In: Ricardo (1951).Works I, xiii-lxii.
37. Sraffa, P., 1960. Production of Commodities by Means of Commodities. Prelude to a Critique of Economic Theory. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
38. Torrens, R., 2000. In: de Vivo, G. (Ed.), Collected Works of Robert Torrens, eight vols. Thoemmes Press, Bristol.
39. Walras, L., 1954. Elements of Pure Economics. Translation of the fifth ed. of Walras's Eléments d'économie politique pure (1874-77) byW. Jaffé. Allen & Unwin, London.
40. Wicksell, K., 1934. Lectures on Political Economy, vol. I. English translation of the Swedish original (1901) by Classen, E., and edited, with an introduction, by Lionel Robbins. George Routledge and Sons, London.