Competing economic theories : essays in memory of Giovanni Caravale

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Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of illustrations; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Economic theory and its history; The relevance for present economic theory of economic theory written in the past; The relevance of the economic ideas of the past; The classical school and the Ricardo debate; The canonical classical growth model: content, adherence and priority; Sraffa: the theoretical world of the 'old classical economists'; Misunderstanding classical economics: the Sraffian interpretation of the surplus approach