Piero Sraffa

<p>This is a lively intellectual biography of a leading protagonist of 20th century culture and his relations with other protagonists such as Gramsci Keynes and Wittgenstein. The book includes an authoritative interpretation of his main work <em>Production of Commodities by Means of Commodities</em> a survey of the debates which followed its publication and hence of the subsequent research strategies undertaken by different 'Sraffian schools' </p>