10 Besicovitch, Sraffa, and the existence of the standard commodity

Neri Salvadori

DOI: 10.4324/9781003138709-13

Original paper: Neri Salvadori (2011) Besicovitch, Sraffa, and the existence of the Standard commodity in Neri Salvadori and Christian Gehrke (eds), Keynes, Sraffa and the Criticism of Neoclassical Theory: Essays in honour of Heinz Kurz, 113–131. London: Routledge.

10.1 Introduction

At the end of summer 1996, Heinz Kurz, just back from a period of time spent at the Wren Library to work on the Sraffa papers, informed me that there was a lot of material on the relationship between Sraffa and the ‘mathematical friends’ he thanks in the Preface of Production of Commodities by means of Commodities. He also proposed to write a joint ...

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