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Fortuitously, just before reading Mat's post below, I read a chapter in  
Vivian Walsh's *Rationality, Allocation and Reproduction* where he  
cites this anecdote in a discussion of the degree to which Sraffa was  
influenced by logical positivism--in his rejection of "subjectivism" in  
value theory, eg. He says it would be ironic if Sraffa were a positivist  
and simultaneously the proximate cause of Ludwig's rethinking of his  
Tractatus theory of language. Walsh cites Eatwell, but what is the  
original source of ths piece of lore, which I find wildly implausible?   
Was it in Monk? I know the latter says that W. got lots of political  
advice and analysis from Sraffa, which does seem plausible.   
 
Kevin Quinn 
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