A friend of Gramsci, a colleague of Keynes and a correspondent of Wittgenstein, Piero Sraffa made contributions to economics and philosophy for over 60 years. This book discusses his intellectual evolution from his student days in Italy to his extended period as librarian at the Marshall Library of Economics in Cambridge. Charting Sraffa's political development in Italy to the point where he was forced to flee Mussolini's regime, the book pays particular attention to his relationship with Gramsci, detailing both their protracted and wide-ranging philosophical discussions and his central role...

L economie occupe une place importante dans la societe, au point de cristalliser un ensemble de questions socialement vives. Cet ouvrage aborde les enjeux de societe a partir de l uvre de Leon Walras (1834-1910). Ce dernier est souvent presente comme l un des peres fondateurs de la Science economique. On oublie toutefois que Leon Walras etait egalement un humaniste, qui a cherche a populariser ses travaux au nom de la paix dans le monde.
Les differentes contributions de cet ouvrage reviennent ainsi, a l occasion du centenaire de la mort de Leon Walras, sur son analyse economique et...

Piero Sraffa's work has had a lasting impact on economic theory and yet we know surprisingly little about the man behind it. This is the first intellectual biography of Sraffa and it details his working relationship with thinkers as diverse as Gramsci, Keynes, Wittgenstein as well as discussing the genesis of his major works.