CONTENTS
List of Illustrations vii
Preface ix
Acknowledgments xi
Chapter One The Reconstruction of an Alternative Economic
Thought: Some Premises 1
Salvatore Biasco
Chapter Two Reflections on Unity and Diversity, the Market and
Economic Policy 7
Jan Kregel
Chapter Three Ending Laissez-Faire Finance 19
Mario Tonveronachi
Chapter Four Democracy in Crisis: So What’s New? 33
Michele Salvati
Chapter Five The Democracy of Ideas:J.
S. Mill, Liberalism and theEconomic Debate 45
Marcella Corsi and Carlo D'Ippoliti
Chapter Six Turgot and the Division of Labor 61
Peter Groenewegen
Chapter Seven Agricultural Surplus and the Means of Production 73
Gianni Vaggi
Chapter Eight The Role of Sraffa Prices in Post-Keynesian Pricing Theory 89
Geoffrey Harcourt
Chapter Nine Classical Underconsumption Theories Reassessed 97
Cosimo Perrotta
Chapter Ten On the “Photograph” Interpretation of Piero Sraffa’s
Production Equations: A View from the Sraffa Archive 113
Heinz D. Kurz and Neri Salvadori
Chapter Eleven On the Earliest Formulations of Sraffa’s Equations 129
Nerio Naldi
Chapter Twelve Normal and Degenerate Solutions of
the Walras-Morishima Model 153
Bertram Schefold
Chapter Thirteen Trading in the “Devil’s Metal”: Keynes’s Speculation and Investment in Tin (1921-46) 167
Maria Cristina Marcuzzo and Annalisa Rosselli
Chapter Fourteen The Oil Question, the Prices of Production and a
Metaphor 189
Sergio Parrinello
Chapter Fifteen Europe and Italy: Expansionary Austerity and Expansionary Precariousness 201
Davide Antonioli and Paolo Pini
Chapter Sixteen Adam Smith and the Neophysiocrats: War of Ideas in Spain (1800-4) 223
Alfonso Sanchez Hormigo
Bibliography 243
List of Contributors 253
Index 257