IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/h/eme/rpeczz/s0161-723020140000029001.html
   My bibliography  Save this book chapter

From ‘Pool of Profits’ to Surplus and Deficit Industries: Archival Evidence on the Evolution of Piero Sraffa’s Thought

In: Research in Political Economy

Author

Listed:
  • Scott Carter

Abstract

This chapter argues that the Marxian theory of exploitation underlies the concepts of surplus and deficit industries that appear in Sraffa’s (1960)Production of Commodities by Means of Commodities. This is seen from archival research of the unpublished papers of Piero Sraffa housed at the Wren Library, Trinity College, University of Cambridge. There it is shown that the origin of these concepts lies in the Marxian theory of exploitation that Sraffa developed regarding the notion of the ‘pool of profits’ the Italian economist utilized over a 14-year period from 1942 to 1956. The chapter engages in an extensive textual study of the archival evidence and then presents a simple analytical model of these relations.

Suggested Citation

  • Scott Carter, 2014. "From ‘Pool of Profits’ to Surplus and Deficit Industries: Archival Evidence on the Evolution of Piero Sraffa’s Thought," Research in Political Economy, in: Research in Political Economy, volume 29, pages 3-61, Emerald Group Publishing Limited.
    • Handle: RePEc:eme:rpeczz:s0161-723020140000029001
    DOI: 10.1108/S0161-723020140000029001
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/S0161-723020140000029001/full/html?utm_source=repec&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=repec
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/S0161-723020140000029001/full/epub?utm_source=repec&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=repec&title=10.1108/S0161-723020140000029001
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/S0161-723020140000029001/full/pdf?utm_source=repec&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=repec
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1108/S0161-723020140000029001?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Ala, Alessandro S. & Lapsley, Irvine, 2019. "Accounting for crime in the neoliberal world," The British Accounting Review, Elsevier, vol. 51(5).
    2. Sujit Kumar De & Kousik Bhattacharya, 2022. "A Pollution Sensitive Marxian Production Inventory Model with Deterioration Under Fuzzy System," Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications, Springer, vol. 192(2), pages 598-627, February.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:eme:rpeczz:s0161-723020140000029001. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Emerald Support (email available below). General contact details of provider: .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.