Piero Sraffa
Piero Sraffa FBA was an influential Italian political economist who served as lecturer of economics at the University of Cambridge. His book Production of Commodities by Means of Commodities is taken as founding the neo-Ricardian school of economics.
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- Born in
- Turin
- Educated at
- London School of Economics and Political ScienceUniversity of Turin
- Awards
- 🏆 honorary doctor of the University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne
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1898
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Birth1983
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