Did Sraffa ever write anything overtly Marxist? His Critique was a challenge to neo-classical theory rather than a promotion of Marxism.
On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 1:38 PM, Jim Farmelant <farmelantj at juno.com> wrote:
>
> On Sun, 17 Jul 2011 12:17:11 -0700 michael perelman
> <michael.perelman3 at gmail.com> writes:
>> she told me, surprisingly, that her biggest influence was Kalecki.
>
> I think that Keynes's relationship with Marxism was more
> complicated than what he was willing to admit to.
> Although he was fierce in his denunciations of
> Marxism and the workers' movement, it was
> Keynes who was responsible for bringing to
> Cambridge both Sraffa, the friend of Gramsci,
> and Kalecki, whose views had been developed on the
> basis of a close study of the economic
> writings of Rosa Luxemburg.
>
> Some people may recall that Joan Robinson
> was widely thought to have been up for the
> Nobel Prize in Economics in 1975. BusinessWeek
> even ran a profile on her in the expectation that
> she would get the Prize. Instead the Prize went
> to awarded it to the Soviet economist and
> mathematician, Leonid Kantorovich, and the American,
> Tjalling C. Koopmans, for their work in creating
> linear programming.
>
> Apparently, Robinson despite her contributions in
> such areas as the analysis of imperfect competition
> and capital theory (work which was of at least the
> same caliber as that of other economists who did
> win the Prize) was denied it because of her outspoken
> leftist, even Maoist, politics, and many say, because
> she was after all a woman.
>
> No woman had ever won the
> Prize in economics (it was only in 2009 that a woman
> finally did win the Prize). It was also said that the Nobel
> Committee was fearful that she might "pull a Sartre"
> on them and turn down the prize, possibly following
> that up with a denunciation of
> the economics profession in general.
> In fact it is reported that she went out of her way
> to reassure the Committee that she had no intentions
> of doing any such thing, but they never awarded her
> the Prize anyway.
>
>
> Jim Farmelant
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