Handbook on the History of Economic Analysis Volume I
Great Economists Since Petty and Boisguilbert
Edited by Gilbert Faccarello and Heinz D. Kurz
- Copyright
- Contents
- Contents (alphabetical)
- Figures and tables
- Contributors
- Chapter 1: General introduction
- Chapter 2: William Petty (1623–1687)
- Chapter 3: Pierre Le Pesant de Boisguilbert (1646–1714)
- Chapter 4: John Law (1671–1729)
- Chapter 5: Richard Cantillon (c. 1680/90–1734)
- Chapter 6: Charles-Louis de Secondat de Montesquieu (1689–1755)
- Chapter 7: François Quesnay (1694–1774) and Physiocracy
- Chapter 8: Daniel Bernoulli (1700–1782)
- Chapter 9: David Hume (1711–1776)
- Chapter 10: James Steuart [James Denham-Steuart] (1712–1780)
- Chapter 11: Adam Smith (1723–1790)
- Chapter 12: Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot (1727–1781)
- Chapter 13: Marie-Jean-Antoine-Nicolas Caritat de Condorcet (1743–1794)
- Chapter 14: Jeremy Bentham (1748–1832)
- Chapter 15: Achilles-Nicolas Isnard (1748–1803)
- Chapter 16: Henry Thornton (1760–1815)
- Chapter 17: Thomas Robert Malthus (1766–1834)
- Chapter 18: Jean-Baptiste Say (1767–1832)
- Chapter 19: David Ricardo (1772–1823)
- Chapter 20: Jean-Charles Léonard Simonde de Sismondi (1773–1842)
- Chapter 21: Thomas Tooke (1774–1858)
- Chapter 22: Robert Torrens (c. 1780–1864)
- Chapter 23: Johann Heinrich von Thünen (1783–1850)
- Chapter 24: Barthélemy-Charles Dunoyer de Segonzac (1786–1862)
- Chapter 25: Friedrich List (1789–1846)
- Chapter 26: Frédéric Bastiat (1801–1850)
- Chapter 27: Antoine-Augustin Cournot (1801–1877)
- Chapter 28: Jules Dupuit (1804–1866)
- Chapter 29: John Stuart Mill (1806–1873)
- Chapter 30: Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (1809–1865)
- Chapter 31: Hermann Heinrich Gossen (1810–1858)
- Chapter 32: Bruno Hildebrand (1812–1878)
- Chapter 33: Wilhelm Georg Friedrich Roscher (1817–1894)
- Chapter 34: Karl Heinrich Marx (1818–1883)
- Chapter 35: Clément Juglar (1819–1905)
- Chapter 36: Gustave de Molinari (1819–1912)
- Chapter 37: Walter Bagehot (1826–1877)
- Chapter 38: Marie-Esprit-Léon Walras (1834–1910)
- Chapter 39: William Stanley Jevons (1835–1882)
- Chapter 40: Adolph Heinrich Gotthilf Wagner (1835–1917)
- Chapter 41: Gustav Friedrich von Schmoller (1838–1917)
- Chapter 42: Henry Sidgwick (1838–1900)
- Chapter 43: Carl Menger (1840–1921)
- Chapter 44: Alfred Marshall (1842–1924)
- Chapter 45: Philip Henry Wicksteed (1844–1927)
- Chapter 46: Francis Ysidro Edgeworth (1845–1926)
- Chapter 47: John Bates Clark (1847–1938)
- Chapter 48: Vilfredo Pareto (1848–1923)
- Chapter 49: Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk (1851–1914)
- Chapter 50: Knut Wicksell (1851–1926)
- Chapter 51: Friedrich von Wieser (1851–1926)
- Chapter 52: Maffeo Pantaleoni (1857–1924)
- Chapter 53: Thorstein Bunde Veblen (1857–1929)
- Chapter 54: Antonio De Viti de Marco (1858–1943)
- Chapter 55: John Atkinson Hobson (1858–1940)
- Chapter 56: Georg Simmel (1858–1918)
- Chapter 57: Enrico Barone (1859–1924)
- Chapter 58: Max Weber (1864–1920)
- Chapter 59: Mikhail Ivanovich Tugan-Baranovsky (1865–1919)
- Chapter 60: Gustav Cassel (1866–1945)
- Chapter 61: Irving Fisher (1867–1947)
- Chapter 62: Ladislaus von Bortkiewicz (1868–1931)
- Chapter 63: Vladimir Karpovich Dmitriev (1868–1913)
- Chapter 64: Louis Bachelier (1870–1946)
- Chapter 65: Arthur Spiethoff (1873–1957)
- Chapter 66: Albert Aftalion (1874–1956)
- Chapter 67: Wesley Clair Mitchell (1874–1948)
- Chapter 68: Edwin Walter Kemmerer (1875–1945)
- Chapter 69: Arthur Cecil Pigou (1877–1959)
- Chapter 70: Ralph George Hawtrey (1879–1975)
- Chapter 71: Evgeny Evgenievich Slutsky (1880–1948)
- Chapter 72: Ludwig Heinrich von Mises (1881–1973)
- Chapter 73: John Maynard Keynes (1883–1946)
- Chapter 74: Joseph Alois Schumpeter (1883–1950)
- Chapter 75: Frank H. Knight (1885–1972)
- Chapter 76: Karl Polanyi (1886–1964)
- Chapter 77: Walter Eucken (1891–1950)
- Chapter 78: Erik Lindahl (1891–1960)
- Chapter 79: Adolph Lowe (1893–1995)
- Chapter 80: Ragnar Anton Kittil Frisch (1895–1973)
- Chapter 81: Jacob Marschak (1898–1977)
- Chapter 82: Gunnar Myrdal (1898–1987)
- Chapter 83: Lionel Charles Robbins (1898–1984)
- Chapter 84: Piero Sraffa (1898–1983)
- Chapter 85: Edward Hastings Chamberlin (1899–1967)
- Chapter 86: Friedrich August von Hayek (1899–1992)
- Chapter 87: Micha_ Kalecki (1899–1970)
- Chapter 88: Roy Forbes Harrod (1900–1978)
- Chapter 89: Abba Ptachya Lerner (1903–1982)
- Chapter 90: John von Neumann (1903–1957)
- Chapter 91: Frank Plumpton Ramsey (1903–1930)
- Chapter 92: Joan Violet Robinson (1903–1983)
- Chapter 93: George Lennox Sharman Shackle (1903–1992)
- Chapter 94: Jan Tinbergen (1903–1994)
- Chapter 95: John Richard Hicks (1904–1989)
- Chapter 96: Oskar Ryszard Lange (1904–1965)
- Chapter 97: Richard Ferdinand Kahn (1905–1989)
- Chapter 98: Wassily W. Leontief (1905–1999)
- Chapter 99: Heinrich von Stackelberg (1905–1946)
- Chapter 100: James Edward Meade (1907–1995)
- Chapter 101: Nicholas Kaldor (1908–1986)
- Chapter 102: Ronald Harry Coase (1910–2013)
- Chapter 103: Richard Abel Musgrave (1910–2007)
- Chapter 104: Tibor Scitovsky (1910–2002)
- Chapter 105: Maurice Allais (1911–2010)
- Chapter 106: Milton Friedman (1912–2006)
- Chapter 107: Abram Bergson [Abram Burk] (1914–2003)
- Chapter 108: Paul Anthony Samuelson (1915–2009)
- Chapter 109: Herbert Alexander Simon (1916–2001)
- Chapter 110: James Tobin (1918–2002)
- Chapter 111: James M. Buchanan (1919–2013)
- Chapter 112: Hyman Philip Minsky (1919–1996)
- Chapter 113: Kenneth Joseph Arrow (b. 1921)
- Chapter 114: Gérard Debreu (1921–2004)
- Chapter 115: Don Patinkin (1922–1995)
- Chapter 116: Michio Morishima (1923–2004)
- Chapter 117: Robert Merton Solow (b. 1924)
- Chapter 118: John Forbes Nash Jr (1928–2015)
- Chapter 119: Robert Alexander Mundell (b. 1932)
- Chapter 120: Takashi Negishi (b. 1933)
- Chapter 121: Amartya Kumar Sen (b. 1933)
- Chapter 122: Robert E. Lucas (b. 1937)
- Chapter 123: George Akerlof (b. 1940)
- Chapter 124: Joseph Eugene Stiglitz (b. 1943)
- Chapter 125: Paul Robin Krugman (b. 1953)
- Index
Chapter 84: Piero Sraffa (1898–1983)
Heinz D. Kurz and Neri Salvadori
Handbook Chapter
- Published in print:
- 29 Jul 2016
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Life Piero Sraffa was born on 5 August 1898 in Turin, Italy. His father, Angelo Sraffa, was an eminent professor of commercial law and later rector of Bocconi University in Milan. Throughout his life Piero had a very close relationship with his mother, who after his father’s death moved to Cambridge to stay near to her son who remained a bachelor. He studied law in Turin and discussed his thesis in 1920 with Luigi Einaudi, who became the President of the Italian Republic in 1948. In the thesis he dealt with the inflation in Italy during and after World War I (Sraffa 1920 [1993]). A year earlier he met Antonio Gramsci, who later was one of the founders of the Italian Communist Party (PCd’I). The two connected a deep friendship that lasted until Gramsci’s death. Sraffa remained close to the party but never became its member. After graduating in Turin he spent a year at the London School of Economics (LSE), where he attended lectures by Edwin Cannan and Herbert Foxwell. He met John Maynard Keynes, who was deeply impressed by the young Italian and invited him to write an essay about the Italian banking system. Keynes published the paper “The bank crisis in Italy” in the Economic Journal, whose editor he was, and asked Sraffa to compose a shorter article for the supplement to the Manchester Guardian Commercial. In it Sraffa, who was possessed of detailed information, uncovered the critical position of the three main Italian banks. Benito Mussolini,...
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- Contents
- Contents (alphabetical)
- Figures and tables
- Contributors
- Chapter 1: General introduction
- Chapter 2: William Petty (1623–1687)
- Chapter 3: Pierre Le Pesant de Boisguilbert (1646–1714)
- Chapter 4: John Law (1671–1729)
- Chapter 5: Richard Cantillon (c. 1680/90–1734)
- Chapter 6: Charles-Louis de Secondat de Montesquieu (1689–1755)
- Chapter 7: François Quesnay (1694–1774) and Physiocracy
- Chapter 8: Daniel Bernoulli (1700–1782)
- Chapter 9: David Hume (1711–1776)
- Chapter 10: James Steuart [James Denham-Steuart] (1712–1780)
- Chapter 11: Adam Smith (1723–1790)
- Chapter 12: Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot (1727–1781)
- Chapter 13: Marie-Jean-Antoine-Nicolas Caritat de Condorcet (1743–1794)
- Chapter 14: Jeremy Bentham (1748–1832)
- Chapter 15: Achilles-Nicolas Isnard (1748–1803)
- Chapter 16: Henry Thornton (1760–1815)
- Chapter 17: Thomas Robert Malthus (1766–1834)
- Chapter 18: Jean-Baptiste Say (1767–1832)
- Chapter 19: David Ricardo (1772–1823)
- Chapter 20: Jean-Charles Léonard Simonde de Sismondi (1773–1842)
- Chapter 21: Thomas Tooke (1774–1858)
- Chapter 22: Robert Torrens (c. 1780–1864)
- Chapter 23: Johann Heinrich von Thünen (1783–1850)
- Chapter 24: Barthélemy-Charles Dunoyer de Segonzac (1786–1862)
- Chapter 25: Friedrich List (1789–1846)
- Chapter 26: Frédéric Bastiat (1801–1850)
- Chapter 27: Antoine-Augustin Cournot (1801–1877)
- Chapter 28: Jules Dupuit (1804–1866)
- Chapter 29: John Stuart Mill (1806–1873)
- Chapter 30: Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (1809–1865)
- Chapter 31: Hermann Heinrich Gossen (1810–1858)
- Chapter 32: Bruno Hildebrand (1812–1878)
- Chapter 33: Wilhelm Georg Friedrich Roscher (1817–1894)
- Chapter 34: Karl Heinrich Marx (1818–1883)
- Chapter 35: Clément Juglar (1819–1905)
- Chapter 36: Gustave de Molinari (1819–1912)
- Chapter 37: Walter Bagehot (1826–1877)
- Chapter 38: Marie-Esprit-Léon Walras (1834–1910)
- Chapter 39: William Stanley Jevons (1835–1882)
- Chapter 40: Adolph Heinrich Gotthilf Wagner (1835–1917)
- Chapter 41: Gustav Friedrich von Schmoller (1838–1917)
- Chapter 42: Henry Sidgwick (1838–1900)
- Chapter 43: Carl Menger (1840–1921)
- Chapter 44: Alfred Marshall (1842–1924)
- Chapter 45: Philip Henry Wicksteed (1844–1927)
- Chapter 46: Francis Ysidro Edgeworth (1845–1926)
- Chapter 47: John Bates Clark (1847–1938)
- Chapter 48: Vilfredo Pareto (1848–1923)
- Chapter 49: Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk (1851–1914)
- Chapter 50: Knut Wicksell (1851–1926)
- Chapter 51: Friedrich von Wieser (1851–1926)
- Chapter 52: Maffeo Pantaleoni (1857–1924)
- Chapter 53: Thorstein Bunde Veblen (1857–1929)
- Chapter 54: Antonio De Viti de Marco (1858–1943)
- Chapter 55: John Atkinson Hobson (1858–1940)
- Chapter 56: Georg Simmel (1858–1918)
- Chapter 57: Enrico Barone (1859–1924)
- Chapter 58: Max Weber (1864–1920)
- Chapter 59: Mikhail Ivanovich Tugan-Baranovsky (1865–1919)
- Chapter 60: Gustav Cassel (1866–1945)
- Chapter 61: Irving Fisher (1867–1947)
- Chapter 62: Ladislaus von Bortkiewicz (1868–1931)
- Chapter 63: Vladimir Karpovich Dmitriev (1868–1913)
- Chapter 64: Louis Bachelier (1870–1946)
- Chapter 65: Arthur Spiethoff (1873–1957)
- Chapter 66: Albert Aftalion (1874–1956)
- Chapter 67: Wesley Clair Mitchell (1874–1948)
- Chapter 68: Edwin Walter Kemmerer (1875–1945)
- Chapter 69: Arthur Cecil Pigou (1877–1959)
- Chapter 70: Ralph George Hawtrey (1879–1975)
- Chapter 71: Evgeny Evgenievich Slutsky (1880–1948)
- Chapter 72: Ludwig Heinrich von Mises (1881–1973)
- Chapter 73: John Maynard Keynes (1883–1946)
- Chapter 74: Joseph Alois Schumpeter (1883–1950)
- Chapter 75: Frank H. Knight (1885–1972)
- Chapter 76: Karl Polanyi (1886–1964)
- Chapter 77: Walter Eucken (1891–1950)
- Chapter 78: Erik Lindahl (1891–1960)
- Chapter 79: Adolph Lowe (1893–1995)
- Chapter 80: Ragnar Anton Kittil Frisch (1895–1973)
- Chapter 81: Jacob Marschak (1898–1977)
- Chapter 82: Gunnar Myrdal (1898–1987)
- Chapter 83: Lionel Charles Robbins (1898–1984)
- Chapter 84: Piero Sraffa (1898–1983)
- Chapter 85: Edward Hastings Chamberlin (1899–1967)
- Chapter 86: Friedrich August von Hayek (1899–1992)
- Chapter 87: Micha_ Kalecki (1899–1970)
- Chapter 88: Roy Forbes Harrod (1900–1978)
- Chapter 89: Abba Ptachya Lerner (1903–1982)
- Chapter 90: John von Neumann (1903–1957)
- Chapter 91: Frank Plumpton Ramsey (1903–1930)
- Chapter 92: Joan Violet Robinson (1903–1983)
- Chapter 93: George Lennox Sharman Shackle (1903–1992)
- Chapter 94: Jan Tinbergen (1903–1994)
- Chapter 95: John Richard Hicks (1904–1989)
- Chapter 96: Oskar Ryszard Lange (1904–1965)
- Chapter 97: Richard Ferdinand Kahn (1905–1989)
- Chapter 98: Wassily W. Leontief (1905–1999)
- Chapter 99: Heinrich von Stackelberg (1905–1946)
- Chapter 100: James Edward Meade (1907–1995)
- Chapter 101: Nicholas Kaldor (1908–1986)
- Chapter 102: Ronald Harry Coase (1910–2013)
- Chapter 103: Richard Abel Musgrave (1910–2007)
- Chapter 104: Tibor Scitovsky (1910–2002)
- Chapter 105: Maurice Allais (1911–2010)
- Chapter 106: Milton Friedman (1912–2006)
- Chapter 107: Abram Bergson [Abram Burk] (1914–2003)
- Chapter 108: Paul Anthony Samuelson (1915–2009)
- Chapter 109: Herbert Alexander Simon (1916–2001)
- Chapter 110: James Tobin (1918–2002)
- Chapter 111: James M. Buchanan (1919–2013)
- Chapter 112: Hyman Philip Minsky (1919–1996)
- Chapter 113: Kenneth Joseph Arrow (b. 1921)
- Chapter 114: Gérard Debreu (1921–2004)
- Chapter 115: Don Patinkin (1922–1995)
- Chapter 116: Michio Morishima (1923–2004)
- Chapter 117: Robert Merton Solow (b. 1924)
- Chapter 118: John Forbes Nash Jr (1928–2015)
- Chapter 119: Robert Alexander Mundell (b. 1932)
- Chapter 120: Takashi Negishi (b. 1933)
- Chapter 121: Amartya Kumar Sen (b. 1933)
- Chapter 122: Robert E. Lucas (b. 1937)
- Chapter 123: George Akerlof (b. 1940)
- Chapter 124: Joseph Eugene Stiglitz (b. 1943)
- Chapter 125: Paul Robin Krugman (b. 1953)
- Index