Saturday, May 21, 2022

Textbooks for Post-Sraffian Price Theory

This post provides a list of textbooks:

  • Syed Ahmad (1991). Capital in Economic Theory: Neo-classical, Cambridge, and Chaos, Edward Elgar.
  • Christian Bidard (2004). Prices, Reproduction, Scarcity, Cambridge University Press.
  • Duncan K. Foley, Thomas R. Michl, and Daniele Tavani.(2019). Growth and Distribution (2nd edition), Harvard University Press.
  • Richard M. Goodwin (1970). Elementary Economics from the Higher Standpoint, Cambridge University Press.
  • Steve Keen (2011). Debunking Economics: The Naked Emperor Dethroned? (Second edition). Zed Books.
  • Heinz D. Kurz and Neri Salvadori (1995). Theory of Production: A Long-Period Analysis, Cambridge University Press
  • Arrigo Opocher and Ian Steedman (2015). Full Industry Equilibrium: A Theory of the Industrial Long Run, Cambridge University Press.
  • Luigi L. Pasinetti (1977). Lectures on the Theory of Production, Columbia University Press
  • Fabio Petri (2021). Microeconomics for the Critical Mind, Springer.
  • Joan Robinson and John Eatwell (1973). An Introduction to Modern Economics, McGraw-Hill.
  • Alessandro Roncaglia (2006) The Wealth of Ideas: A History of Economic Thought, Cambridge University Press.
  • Ernesto Screpanti and Stefano Zamagni (2005) An Outline of the History of Economic Thought (Second edition). Oxford University Press.
  • Eric Sheppard and Trevor J. Barnes (1990) The Capitalist Space Economy: Geographical Analysis After Ricardo, Marx, and Sraffa. Routledge.
  • Yanis Varoufakis (1998). Foundations of Economics: A Beginner's Companion. Routledge.
  • Vivian Walsh and Harvey Gram (1980). Classical and Neoclassical Theory of General Equilibrium: Historical Origins and Mathematical Structure, Oxford University Press.
  • J. E. Woods (1990). The Production of Commodities: An Introduction to Sraffa, Humanities Press International.

Some of the above are out of print. I assume a reader who knows that one needs to read with paper and pen in hand. I deliberately do not include books by Christopher Bliss, Edwin Burmeister, or Avinash Dixit on growth theory, since I want to emphasize critics of mainstream economics. Nothing against them, and I could probably extend the above list with some thought. I have provided related lists before:

I suppose one might have other lists more Marxist than any of the above, a list for Leontief input-output analysis, a list for ecological economics, and a list with more emphasis on the history of economics.

Textbooks have been available for half a century that teach correct price theory.

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