C129.4r: Harcourt on Translation Of Sraffa (1926)

This letter is from G. C. Harcourt to Piero Sraffa. As I understand it, Sraffa later refused permission for this translation to be published while he was alive. The translation now available is from Alessandro Roncaglia and John Eatwell.

Adelaide, South Australia 5001
Telephone: 23 4333

Department of Economics
14th April 1970.

Piero Sraffa, Esq.,
Trinity College,
CAMBRIDGE, U.K.

Dear Piero,

Just a short note to say how delighted I was that you will let Mario Nuti translate the Italian version of your 1926 article for Australian Economic Papers. We will, of course, honour strictly your conditions. It really is very generous of you and I personally am extremely grateful.

I hope to be in Cambridge next January for 4 – 6 weeks and hope very much that we may meet then. I hear from Vincent from time to time, he seems to be flourishing. I have just come back from three marvellous months in Japan. I wrote a book on capital theory while there, expanding the assertions of my survey article into, I hope, persuasive arguments.

With all good wishes,

Yours ever,
Geoff. [Handwritten]
G. C. HARCOURT
Professor of Economics

Some Cambridge Controversies in the Theory of Capital is the book Harcourt mentions writing while visiting Japan. I do not know who Vincent is.