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Sraffa, Marshall and the principle of continuity

dc.contributor.authorMartins, Nuno O.
dc.date.accessioned2013-10-04T09:39:58Z
dc.date.available2013-10-04T09:39:58Z
dc.date.issued2013-01
dc.date.updated2013-10-03T17:03:21Z
dc.descriptionCopyright © The Author 2013. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Cambridge Political Economy Society.en
dc.description.abstractThis article addresses Piero Sraffa's critique of Alfred Marshall's supply-and-demand framework, and Sraffa's later book Production of Commodities, taking into account an aspect that has been relatively neglected in the literature, namely the ontology underlying the conceptions of Sraffa and Marshall. This ontological dimension can be best understood through Sraffa's critique of the principle of continuity. The principle of continuity was used by Marshall as a methodological justifcation for the use of partial equilibrium methods in the analysis of supply and demand, in a context where different causes are deeply interconnected. Sraffa acknowledges the existence of interconnectedness, but rejects Marshall's methodology, which is based on the principle of continuity, as it becomes clear in his unpublished manuscripts, which are examined here.en
dc.identifier.citationMartins, N. O. (2013). "Sraffa, Marshall and the principle of continuity", «Cambridge Journal of Economics», 37(2): 443-462. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/cje/bes070.en
dc.identifier.issn0309-166X (Print)
dc.identifier.issn1464-3545 (Online)
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10400.3/2271
dc.language.isoengpor
dc.peerreviewedyespor
dc.publisherOxford University Pressen
dc.relation.publisherversionhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1093/cje/bes070por
dc.subjectContinuityen
dc.subjectClassical Political Economyen
dc.subjectObjectivismen
dc.subjectOntologyen
dc.titleSraffa, Marshall and the principle of continuityen
dc.typejournal article
dspace.entity.typePublication
oaire.citation.endPage462por
oaire.citation.issue(2)por
oaire.citation.startPage443por
oaire.citation.titleCambridge Journal of Economicsen
oaire.citation.volume37por
rcaap.rightsopenAccesspor
rcaap.typearticlepor

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