The Production of Commodities An Introduction to Sraffa
The purpose of this book is to provide an elementary account of Sraffa's Production of Commodities by means of Commodities. Operating with a two-sector model in order to minimise the mathematical demands on the reader, the author is nonetheless able to an
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The Production of Commodities An Introduction to Sraffa
J. E. WOODS
M
MACMILLAN
© J.
E. Woods 1990
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ISBN 978-0-333-43629-5 ISBN 978-1-349-20483-0 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-1-349-20483-0
To Anne, Patrick Daniel and Andrew
Contents Preface
ix
Acknowledgements
Xl
1 Introduction
1
2 A Subsistence Economy
12
3
21
Production with a Surplus: Subsistence Wage
4 Production with a Surplus: Wage above Subsistence
39
5
56
Price Variations and the Standard Commodity
6 Choice of Technique
73
7 The Quantity Equations and Duality
131
8 Introduction to Multiple-Product Industries Models
166
9
Fixed Capital
169
10
Land
226
11
Joint Production
258
12
Review
298
References
335
Author Index
342
