Wednesday, October 11, 2017

Others With Points Of View Like Sraffa's

In Production of Commodities by Means of Commodities, Sraffa writes:

"others have from time to time independently taken up points of view which are similar to one or other of those adopted in this paper and have developed them further or in different directions from those proposed here." -- P. Sraffa (1960): pp. vi - vii.

Who is Sraffa talking about? I suggest the following, and their works, at least:

  • Tjalling C. Koopmans (1957). Three Essays on the State of Economic Science. New York: McGraw-Hill
  • Wassily W. Leontief (1941). Structure of the American Economy, 1919-1929.
  • Jacob T. Schwartz (1961). Lectures on the Mathematical Method in Economics. New York: Gordon & Breach.
  • John Von Neumann (1945-1946). A Model of General Economic Equilibrium, A Model of General Economic Equilibrium. V. 13, No. 1: pp. 1-9.

I thought about listing David Hawkins and Herbert Simon, given how frequently the Hawkins-Simon condition is cited in expositions of Leontief input-output analysis. I might also mention Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen, the creator of the non-substitution theorem. The work of Ladislaus Bortkiewicz, Georg von Charasoff, Vladimir K. Dmitriev, and Robert Remak, as I understand it, mostly predates Sraffa's long period of preparation of his masterpiece.

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